Child scope access problems

[zhukov]

My template

<div class="audio_player_wrap">
    <audio ng-if="audio.url" media-player="mediaPlayer" autoplay="autoplay">
      <source ng-src="{{::audio.url}}" type="audio/ogg" />
    </audio>
</div>

Due to ng-if directive creates new child scope, I can't access $scope.mediaPlayer in parent directive. It's the same problem as when using ng-model with expression without dot; caused by prototype inheritance in AngularJS.
I used this workaround:

--- a/app/vendor/angular-media-player/angular-media-player.js
+++ b/app/vendor/angular-media-player/angular-media-player.js
@@ -430,7 +430,9 @@ angular.module('mediaPlayer', ['mediaPlayer.helpers'])
         } else {
           playlist = scope[playlistName];
         }
-        if (mediaName !== undefined) { scope[mediaName] = player; }
+        if (mediaName !== undefined) {
+          scope.$eval(mediaName + ' = player', {player: player});
+        }

with attribute media-player="mediaPlayer.player" and defined $scope.mediaPlayer = {} in parent directive.
The same probably applies to playlist attribute.