[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Lua: convert playlist parser back to demux

[Steve Lhomme]

On 2020-09-30 7:12, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> On 2020-09-29 17:07, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>> Le tiistaina 29. syyskuuta 2020, 8.21.59 EEST Pierre Ynard via 
>> vlc-devel a
>> écrit :
>>>> Lua: convert playlist parser back to demux
>>>
>>> So this means that neither ytdl nor lua playlist parsers are getting
>>> auto-probed anymore by vlc_stream_NewURL(),
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> This seems like making it impossible for the Lua stream filters to 
> return a different content than the original stream, in order to trigger 
> the adaptive streaming demuxer. Could a demuxer actually forward the 
> content to another demuxer ?

Looking at ytdl it seems possible by nesting the other demuxer 
(DemuxNested/ControlNested). So it's doable.

> This is not just for Lua scripts. The ytdl module should also do the 
> same rather than force one version of the stream regardless of 
> network/screen/gpu capabilities.
> 
>> Lua will no longer ruin performance on low-end systems, and YoutubeDL 
>> never
>> will. They generally no longer hijack URLs that native demuxers would 
>> handle.
>>
>> We should probably add an assertion in the stream filter probe code that
>> pf_readdir is never set.
>>
>>> all the codebase that currently call it is free from interference, and
>>> #18801 is also fixed, right?
>>
>> I think so. Again, we should probably add an assertion.
>>
>> -- 
>> Реми Дёни-Курмон
>> http://www.remlab.net/
>>
>>
>>
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