Re: [xine-devel] audio tracks in Xine

[Thibaut M. <thi...@gm...>]

Hi Michael,

On 10/3/05, Michael Roitzsch <mr...@us...> wrote:
> Hi Thibaut,
>
> > Ok.
> > Attached a new proposition with no API breakage.
> > video/audio/subtitle tracks are called channels like in the rest of
> > the API.
>
> Consistency is good. :)
>
> > Current stream/metainfo functions are not deprecated, they return
> > infos on the current video/audio/subtitle channel.
> >
> > What do you think ?
>
> I don't have your previous patch any longer, but I think I remember

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.xine.devel/13607

> that it used C structures to transport all the information at once. I
> think this was better for the frontend coders, because they can get
> all the information with just one call. But I realize that there is a
> problem with the structured approach: Noone can tell how long the
> information is valid. But we may run into the same problem with
> Thibaut's current constant-based approach once we want to pass strings.

That's an old problem. iirc I've proposed some years ago to add a
metainfo change event, but i never implemented it.

> Michael

Thibaut