[FFmpeg-devel] Option passing to demuxers Was: PATCH rtsp/sdp/multicast

[Luca Barbato]

Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Oct 24, 2009, at 6:35 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> That part is good, I wonder if there is interest in getting option
>> passing a bit more saner (since at least in rtsp and http you may have
>> url with params that may collide with ffmpeg internal ones...)
> 
> I've always said we shouldn't abuse URIs to handle demuxer / app option
> handling. It's undiscoverable, not described in --help, not
> introspectable and you're indeed just waiting for a rtsp that rejects
> unknown options but also has one that clashes with an ff one. It is
> buggy and will break.

That said, who is interested in changing _lots_ of code by moving to
AVOption?

lu

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Luca Barbato
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