Re: HLS, DASH, MPD and LMS future version

bpa wrote: 
> Sorry for the dump of posts but HLS has been in my head for the last
> month or two and it'll be gone once I stop working on the plugin.

Thanks for answering, this is very helpful. This is the kind of
discussion I was hoping to have. I have to think about it more, but
keeping HLS or DASH as a plugin, even if it's internal to LMS would
prevent 3rd party plugins to really depends on them no? 

I was thinking about that after I finally found a way to have Reliable &
Cache as a core HTTP package (which I could not do at the beginning) as
it could provide the easiest way for 3rd party plugins to use HLS /
DASH. All they would have to do is to get the manifest files and the
built-in protocol handler would take care of all the rest. So that
sounds to me like a set of Slim::Player::Protocols::HLS.pm  and
Slim::Player::Protocols::DASH.pm. I can't say that I'm absolutely sure
of that, though.

That also led me to think about versions now. I was asking @mherger if
we should not

- Release 8.1.2 and say it's done, no further fixes
- Release 8.2 and call it stable, which means 8.2.x will only provide
bug fixes (if we do that I'll have one or two last proposals :))
- Open a 8.3 (or beyond!) to work on that topic, and maybe others



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