[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/4] ytdl: access module for YoutubeDL

[Steve Lhomme]

On 2020-09-22 7:50, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> On 2020-09-21 18:02, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>> This passes every HTTP(S) URL through YoutubeDL to extract playlists
> 
> That sounds like a terrible idea. What is the extra time and memory 
> consumption added to every HTTP call ?

Other aspect of this, if one wants to add vimeo, dailymotion, tiktok, 
twitter, etc. Are we going to add one python layer for each ? Or should 
we centralize all these tests in one call ?

> Also that means the python script becomes a very sensitive part of VLC. 
> Is it going to be fuzzed ? What about the Youtube-DL that users may 
> download from questionable locations, since we don't ship it (nor fuzz 
> it) ?
> 
>> or media. If YoutubeDL fails, it falls back to the normal HTTP(S)
>> access. This includes if YoutubeDL or Python 3 are not found.