From: Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc>
---
libavformat/avformat.h | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index 4964263..d3b3bf2 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@
* 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
+ * URLs in libavformat are made of a protocol a ':' and a protocol specific
string
+ * urls without a protocol and ':' used for local files are supported but
+ * deprecated. "file:" should be used for local files.
+ * It is important that the protocol string is not taken from untrusted soucres
+ * without checks.
+ * some protocols are quite powerfull, allowing access to 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
--
1.7.9.5
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