Generic instructions about VLC Lua meta scripts.

There are 3 types of Lua meta modules: art, fetcher and reader. See their respective README.txt for documentation.

See lua/README.txt for generic documentation about Lua usage in VLC.

API

VLC Lua meta modules should define a descriptor function:

• descriptor(): returns a table with information about the module. This table has the following member: .scope: Search scope of the script. Can be "network" or "local". and defaults to "network". "local" scripts are considered fast and processed first. "network" scripts are considered slow and processed in a second pass only if policy allows it.

  Example: function descriptor() return { scope="network" } end