This leaves the choice for bindings to use it or not.

I wish we did the same for hotkeys and inhibit but it would break
backward libvlc API compatibility.

It will avoid memory corruptions in case of a broken decoder.

It probably closes #2719.

Butw ithout it, the layout of multichannels audio are probably wrong.

Maybe we should split encoders per ES type?

These calls have been replaced by vlc.playlist.items.* calls.

It is up to the access to refuse if it can't.
Anyway, the check was only for one path of a seek command (when using
stream_Read( NULL, size)).
This partially revert fc9f8518, please report any breakage.