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

[Thomas Guillem]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, at 07:56, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> 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 ?

No we will do it in Rust.

> 
> > 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.
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