[FFmpeg-devel] Passing info from a protocol to a demuxer

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:35:57AM +0100, Gavin Kinsey wrote:
> I'm trying to bring some code we have at the company I work for up to a  
> standard that is acceptable for inclusion into ffmpeg.  There are many  
> issues with it, but I know how to sort most of them.  The only one I'm  
> not sure of is how to get information from the network protocol handler  
> to the demuxer.
>
> The protocol our servers use is basically HTTP with some extra  
> information in the headers.  This extra information includes what format  
> the stream will be in.  Currently the protocol code stores this  
> information in an extra variable in URLContext.  I'd like to replace  
> this with something more elegant that doesn't clutter up the general API  
> with our format-specific data.
>
> I'm not sure what to replace it with though, is what I want to do  
> feasible?  I've looked a little at AVOption, could that do what I want?
>

> I could always fall back to brute force detection of the stream format
> using just the stream data, but given that we have the information  
> available it seems a shame not to use it.

is there any (real) disadvantage with that?
it should be simpler too in code to use existing format probing

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