[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] sub properties and metadata as properties

Benjamin Zores ben at geexbox.org
Sat May 19 23:46:32 CEST 2007


Alban Bedel a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> this is the beggining of my work to get rid of the current metadata API and
> use the property API instead. IMHO having a separate API for metadata doesn't
> make much sense when everything else can be queried via the properties.
> Another thing is the limitation of the metadata API as it only allow to query
> a subset of the possible metadata.
> 
> The first patch rework the property API to allow having sub properties
> such as metadata/title, etc.
> 
> The second patch add the needed stuff to be able to query all info currently
> available via the metadata API with properties.
> 
> After that (and some more work on the menu) it should be possible to remove
> the whole metadata API. IMHO the related commands (MP_CMD_GET_META_*) should
> then also be removed. However i'd like to hear what others thinks about
> removing useless commands. On the plus side we would get rid of quiet some
> code, on the minus side it would break some frontend.
> 
> 	Albeu

Hey,

Just to help with the testing, could you just add to your patch the 
required changes to etc/menu.conf, needed to use new features ?

Ben



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