[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Browser remote content API

[Lukasz Marek]

Hi,

I have an idea of new API, hopely useful.

FFmpeg allows to use content on remote servers via network protocols 
(http, ftp, sftp). It can be read, written, played, probed etc, but in 
case user want to make application with some UI that displays that 
content (file names, dirs) then they need to implement it aside.
It would be nice to extend URLProtocol with some kind of "readdir" callback.

Furhtermore, it would be nice to have single function that read media 
related metadata like resolution, duration, codec,maybe thumbnail etc. 
(copy paste from ffprobe can be probably done).

Maybe this is a project for GSoC?


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Lukasz Marek

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