ffmpeg | branch: master | Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> | Sat Jan 23 00:35:46 2016 +0100| [3130556c0eb09f3da3c9de6473a97937a4648d62] | committer: Michael Niedermayer
avformat: Document urls a bit Spell-checked-by: Moritz Barsnick <barsn...@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> > http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=3130556c0eb09f3da3c9de6473a97937a4648d62 --- libavformat/avformat.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h index 4964263..285bb16 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 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-cvslog mailing list ffmpeg-cvslog@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-cvslog