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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

	Hi,

Le keskiviikkona 23. syyskuuta 2020, 0.25.10 EEST Marvin Scholz a écrit :
> IMO it's a bad idea to use the generic parser even though it has its
> benefits, those mentioned points in the readme might make sense if explicitly
> requested by the user but for a case like VLC where every URL will be passed
> to it, it seems quite wasteful to make a request to each URL just because it
> might be handleable by the default extractor…

I have to disagree. The generic extractor is notably there to handle videos 
embedded in web pages. Currently, VLC does not support that, and requiring an 
explicit request seems very user-hostile. Furthermore, some other IE's are not 
domain-specific and may need to fetch the URL in essentially all cases, so 
removing the generic IE will not bring much benefits.

And then, it involves internal APIs which are susceptible to silent breakage.

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