adding an option to smb input

[Rarrum]

I'm interested in implementing a very specific feature in order to fix a stutter-at-start problem I get when playing audio over a high-latency smb connection. Specifically, if you go to the UI in the settings, under Input / Codecs - Access modules - SMB. Right now there is an option for "caching value in ms". I would like to add another option there to prevent playback from starting until a certain amount is already cached.

I'm not familiar with the vlc code-base, though I've done "svn checkout svn://svn.videolan.org/libdvbpsi/trunk libdvbpsi-trunk" as per http://wiki.videolan.org/Subversion#Check_out . Could someone point me to the specific files I would need to touch in order to add that option to the gui, and to implement that into wherever the reader/input/etc code is?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Git will help you get the VLC code source.

[Rarrum]

I've checked out the source using git now, and ran bootstrap, configure, and make. I've got a question:

After compiling it all, when I run the ./vlc, it starts into some sort of commandline version of the player. How do I get it to start the normal gui for the player?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

--enable-qt4 or --enable-wxwidgets

[Rarrum]

Thanks! That, along with installing libqt4-dev did the trick.

I've been looking over things.. what I want to implement here sounds like it would be useful for a lot more than just smb. I've got the option added to the UI for the file access module so far, now I just need to hook that up and make use of it.

I'm not really familiar with how the different pieces of vlc are hooked up though. Basically the feature I want to implement is "don't start playing until X amount is already cached". In /src/input/stream.c I see "#define STREAM_CACHE_PREBUFFER_SIZE (32767)" ... I don't know if the prebuffer code in that file is even relevant to what I'm trying to do here though. Any suggestions on what code I should be looking at, which controls this type of stuff?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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