[MPlayer-dev-eng] VCD interface is too limited (or another really anoying non-use of stream->priv), what to do about it ?

[Alban Bedel]

Hi all,

i started to take a look at the vcd stream in order to port it to the
new api. Sadly the current implementation have a big problem (wich hadn't
be adressed in g2 p3 either). It doesn't use per instance data but a
'global' var. The problem is that there is 3.5 differents implementation
(linux/sun, nbsd and fbsd) of this interface.
Porting that to the new api 'as is' like in g2 doesn't really make sense
imho. So we have to either change this vcd api (wich mean very big
changes in vcd_read*.h) or completly rewrite the vcd stuff.
So what do you guys (especially those who wrote that) think ?