[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] IPv6 support v.2

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Nov 7, 2007 4:08 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:

> 1. its not libavformats job at all to provide any way to resolve names to
> IPs, this really is outside of libavformats area, and would be a huge hack
> by itself. So you can expect more resistance here no matter if AVWhatever
> or getaddrinfo() libavformat has no busness exporting these


That's fine, I can live with that...


> also i think lack of the standard functions has to be shown to be real on
> some major platform before any form of getaddrinfo() can be added


Win2k? Not sure about BeOS or the smaller OSes that ffmpeg appears to
support one way or another. Not that I care much about BeOS, but Win2k could
be a possible interest point for me, at least for the time being, it still
has a large userbase and is - in a way - worth keeping compat with. If you
disagree, that's ok and I'll use getaddrinfo() directly (I may still add a
single wrapper for resolving hosts a la resolve_host() / inetaddr_resolve()
or that getaddrinfo()-wrapper in udp.c), some calls can be merged together
such that it takes less code, I'll just remove AVInetAddr and the other
funcs).

Ronald