[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] stream controls with cache

[Alban Bedel]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:16 +0200
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> something is still behaving a bit weird, but in principle attached
> patch makes stream controls work through the cache (chapter seeking
> only so far).
> At least for cdda:// it works, though there is some code in the stream
> layer that prints the current track number which results in really
> ugly output...
> Do you think this is an acceptable way to do this?

I find it OK, but IMHO there is only 2 solution that can totally fix
this problem: add a non-blocking mode to the stream API or switch the
cache to use a thread.

The latter is probably the simplest and less intrusive, but could be an
inflammable topic.

	Albeu