[MPlayer-advusers] playlist parser as a demuxer?

[compn]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:22:47 +0100
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:

> 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.

ah yes, this would be good, off by default, ability to pop in config for people.