Re: [xine-devel] gxine asx playlist loading problem

[Miguel F. <mfr...@gm...>]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:26:14 +0100, Guenter Bartsch
<bar...@t-...> wrote:
> first i must say that i am glad to see gxine developement continuation,
> keep up the good work.

yes, i'd like to also thank Darren for his great work. it was pretty
sad seeing abandoned software...

 
> - xine-lib limits asx playlists to 50K and some of my playlists are
> longer than that
> - entry ordering is wrong and playback starts somewhere in the middle
> instead of the beginning of the playlist

i have no idea of why ordering would be wrong, afaict, events are sent
in the order the entries appear in the file and if playback starts in
the middle of the playlist this is most likely a frontend bug.

still the xine-lib asx parser is basically meant for reference files
(used for network streaming). the 50k limitation can probably be
removed and the code improved, but imho, frontend should be able to
handle the existing playlist formats (such as asx, m3u, etc) by itself
instead of relying on xine-lib.

Miguel