[Bug 770331] player: Implement a playlist API and next/previous commands

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770331

--- Comment #30 from Bastien Nocera <bugzilla at hadess.net> ---
(In reply to Tim-Philipp Müller from comment #29)
> I'm not sure if those should be linked. I think providing some kind of
> minimal playlist API for player API users would be good, independent of
> everything else.

Indeed, playlist handling != playlist parsing.

eg. https://git.gnome.org//browse/totem/tree/src/totem-playlist.h !=
totem-pl-parser

The idea here would be for GstPlayer itself to have access to URLs and metadata
extracted from playlists.

This would include URLs, title, start time, subtitle URL (for external subs),
current video/audio/subtitle tracks, etc. and GstPlayer automatically handling
repeat and loop modes, and gapless transitions when possible.

> For playlist support in #777613 the first step would be to detect playlists
> and simply post them for the application to parse (e.g. with totem-plparser).

I'd be happy to work on that, though it would really be a role-reversal (we
currently pass playlists to GStreamer when totem-pl-parser doesn't handle them,
rather than the opposite), but something similar to this would be the way to
populate the playlist support requested in this bug.

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