We use the metadata provided by youtube-dl to sort-of implement
fragmented DASH streaming.
This is all a bit hacky, but hopefully a makeshift solution until
libavformat has proper mechanisms. (Although in danger of being one
of those temporary hacks that become permanent.)
No development activity (or even any sign of life) for almost a year.
A replacement based on youtube-dl will probably be provided before the
next mpv release. Ask on the IRC channel if you want to test.
Simplify the Lua check too: libquvi linking against a different Lua
version than mpv was a frequent issue, but with libquvi gone, no
direct dependency uses Lua, and such a clash is rather unlikely.
This was forgotten when the parser for mplayer2 EDL files was removed.
Change the header of the mpv EDL format to include a '#', so a naive
parser could skip the header as comment. (Maybe this is questionable;
on the other hand, if it can be simpler, why not.)
Also, strip the header in demux_edl.c before passing on the data, so the
header check doesn't need to be duplicated in tl_mpv_edl.c.
Edit Decision Lists (EDL) allow combining parts from multiple source
files into one virtual file. MPlayer had an EDL format (which sucked),
which mplayer2 tried to improve with its own format (which sucked). As
logic demands, mpv introduces its very own format (which sucks).
The new format should actually be much simpler and easier to use, and
its implementation is simpler and smaller too.
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