Playlist improvements and search expression support

[theguy]

I often add large media folder to vlc playlist then search within it. VLC search is very limited. I suggest following features:

1. Make search display the content of the folders if there is a match in parent (folder name). current behavior strictly shows only matches . so if you have: "my favorite song" folder. and song name "compile with vlc.mp3" then searching my favorite. will matches the folder, but you can't play the song. you have to delete the search terms and search manually in the list. (better if added as option)

2. Allow some logical operators in search. (OR, AND, wildcard) maybe a regexp support better.

3. Allow auto storing thumbnail from video in a folder in folder to show as thumb representative of videos or art covers.

4. When adding folder automatically fetch all items quickly (without fetching art or time estimate). currently it just adds folder. sometimes noticed if I double click it doesn't preparse all items, making search useless.

I have implemented 1 and 2 without regexp in vlc source locally.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

We'll add all this, yes.