[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] support for ordered chapters/segment linking in Matroska

[Anton Khirnov]

ok, so you basically want me to reverse what Aurelien told me to do

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> wrote:
>There are many more things I don't like in this patch. One of them being that
>the demuxer try to parse a directory and open files itself. I think the
>demuxer should only deal with ByteIOContext that the generic framework (utils.c)
>passes to it. That's up to the generic framework to find and open files
>(or network streams of whatever...). That could also be useful for other
>demuxer.

joy, i love nothing more than moving random pieces of code betwenn
utils and matroskadec :P

>ehm, if nut did link to files, it would link by relative pathnames not
>some file content specific thing.

which means users can't rename their files. i'm not sure this is
better than matroska system.

btw is there a reason is_dos_path(), match_ext() and a bunch of other
functions at the bottom of avformat.h don't have av_ prefix?

Anton