That just makes no sense, but seems to be a somewhat common user error.
The detection is not perfect. It's conceivable that EXT-X-... headers
are used in normal m3u playlists. After all, HLS playlists are by
definition a compatible extension to m3u playlists, as stupid as it
sounds.
The purpose is making accessing the current playlist entry saner when
commands are executed during initialization, termination, or after
playlist navigation commands.
For example, the "playlist_remove current" command will invalidate
playlist->current - but some things still access the playlist entry even
on uninit. Until now, checking stop_play implicitly took care of it, so
it worked, but it was still messy.
Introduce the mpctx->playing field, which points to the current playlist
entry, even if the entry was removed and/or the playlist's current entry
was moved (e.g. due to playlist navigation).
Loading a playlist with --playlist from a sub-directory added the
playlist's base path twice: one time in the playlist demuxer, and then
again in playlist_parse_file(). The latter function is used only for
--playlist, so it worked when loading the playlist directly.
(This is probably a mess-up when the MPlayer playlist parsers were
replaced with newer code.)
CC: @mpv-player/stable
Currently entries are added after the current playlist element. This is kinda
confusing, more so given that "loadfile append" appends at the end of the
playlist.
A playlist_move command that moves an entry onto itself (both arguments
have the same index) should do nothing, but it did something broken. The
underlying reason is that it checks the prev pointer of the entry which
is temporarily removed for moving.
These playlist parsers are all what's left from the old mplayer playlist
parsing code. All of it is old code that does little error checking; the
type of C string parsing code that gives you nightmare.
Some playlist parsers have been rewritten and are located in
demux_playlist.c. The removed formats were not reimplemented. ASX and
SMIL use XML, and since we don't want to depend on a full blown XML
parser, this is not so easy. Possibly these formats could be supported
by writing a very primitive XML-like lexer, which would lead to success
with most real world files, but I haven't attempted that. As for NSC, I
couldn't find any URL that worked with MPlayer, and in general this
formats seems to be more than dead.
Move playlist_parse_file() to playlist.c. It's pretty small now, and
basically just opens a stream and a demuxer. No use keeping
playlist_parser.c just for this.
wm4
Marcin Kurczewski
Alessandro Ghedini