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| author | Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc> | 2016-01-23 00:35:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc> | 2016-01-31 00:24:52 +0100 |
| commit | 7bcf142c02e0b3f462b61a1377e963c6366597e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 629992a27944b76a511d8848fb804d1c2b962a95 /libavformat/avformat.h | |
| parent | 0251cd6cf328455d4c25f7280f223523711d1e58 (diff) | |
| download | ffmpeg-7bcf142c02e0b3f462b61a1377e963c6366597e7.tar.gz | |
avformat: Document urls a bit
Spell-checked-by: Moritz Barsnick <barsnick@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
(cherry picked from commit 3130556c0eb09f3da3c9de6473a97937a4648d62)
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
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| -rw-r--r-- | libavformat/avformat.h | 12 |
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diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h index be929a588d..c2cef3cc4a 100644 --- a/libavformat/avformat.h +++ b/libavformat/avformat.h @@ -78,6 +78,18 @@ * if its AVClass is non-NULL, and the protocols layer. See the discussion on * nesting in @ref avoptions documentation to learn how to access those. * + * @section urls + * URL strings in libavformat are made of a scheme/protocol, a ':', and a + * scheme specific string. URLs without a scheme and ':' used for local files + * are supported but deprecated. "file:" should be used for local files. + * + * It is important that the scheme string is not taken from untrusted + * sources without checks. + * + * Note that some schemes/protocols are quite powerful, allowing access to + * both local and remote files, parts of them, concatenations of them, local + * audio and video devices and so on. + * * @defgroup lavf_decoding Demuxing * @{ * Demuxers read a media file and split it into chunks of data (@em packets). A |