[vlc-devel] Input item title

Pierre Ynard linkfanel at yahoo.fr
Tue Sep 29 14:33:53 CEST 2020


> As some of you probably know, there are currently two competing ways
> to set the title on an input item:
> - the title element in the metadata structure nested within the input
>   item,
> - the name field in the input item.

> We should remove either of them, or at least force them to be kept in
> sync. I would remove the input item name field, considering as the
> meta title may be used in other scenarii (?).

I agree that this is a source of bothersome fallback and synchronization
code, and sometimes bugs. Removing the name field sounds good to me.

-- 
Pierre Ynard
"Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier."


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