[MPlayer-advusers] playlist parser as a demuxer?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 08 January 2005 at 15:16, compn wrote:
[...]
> > Also there is a security aspect. Playlist can contain any filename
> > located anywhere, they should not be executed "just like that" without
> > the user knowing about it.
> 
> ok, how about
> 'all demuxers have failed, we dont know what type of file this is'
> 'y/n to use -playlist parser on it?'

While displaying an error message is OK, becoming interactive in this way
isn't. The expected behaviour is that MPlayer either starts playing or
fails, we shouldn't introduce different behaviour. Perhaps a commandline
option would be in order. Something like "-try-playlist" or similar. Off
by default, of course.

> mplayer -playlist http://unknown.file
> vs
> mplayer http://unknown.file
> 
> there is no difference, user is stupid either way. users try to -playlist
> anything.

There's a difference. I know it and I know you know it. It's a matter of
educating users that there is a difference, that's all.

[...]
> > The only place where some kind of "automatic" playlist parsing is
> > important is in browser plugins. And I really think it should be them
> > who should parse it - they have access to browser settings, thus
> > should be able to do wiser decisions than MPlayer and often the
> > playlist formats are (similar to) things like xml which the browser
> > probably supports already anyway.
> 
> i agree some playlists are just in html and this should be handled by
> browser/plugin, and it is possible to set the mime/extention type to
> call mplayer -playlist on files of .pls .smi .smil .ram .asx in the opts
> of the browser (if you know where to look)
> 
> but majority of users dont use browser plugins (i think only 1 person
> in #mplayer per month asks about mplayer-plugin)

Well, then they should start using them. That's what plugins are for.

R.

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