On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:59 PM, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:35:45 +0200 > Stephan Holljes <klaxa1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> This patchset is a new simple implementation of ffserver for a new >> repository. It is basically a port of https://github.com/klaxa/mkvserver_mk2 >> The self-implemented fifo buffers have been replaced by AVFifoBuffer. >> Documentation on the architecture is present in a separate file. >> Currently only matroska video and no configuration is supported. >> These features are part of the future work to be done during GSoC. > > Doesn't look bad - definitely better than what we'd had if we had kept > the old ffserver. > > I don't quite like that it appears to use the libavformat HTTP server > (a thing which I question whether it really should exist), but whatever.
As far as I understand it was kind of intended for this specific use. What would you suppose instead? Use another library? Run as a webserver cgi thing? (Could that even work?) Reimplementing the HTTP protocol clearly can't be the answer. I'm open to suggestions. > > Documentation is a bit lacking. Ok I will add more. What parts do you feel are missing that are most important? (I found that usage is missing completely for example. Whoops.) > > Does the code assume av_fifo is thread safe? Because last time I > looked, it claimed to be, but wasn't. I think it does. Will add mutexes for locking them. Thanks for the feedback! _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
