[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lavf/file: Add proper support for authority in file URIs.

[Andrey Semashev]

On 11/29/18 10:16 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
> Andrey Semashev (2018-11-29):
>> 				     Nowdays, there is one common interface
>> for interacting with ffmpeg, and this interface is URIs (or raw local
>> paths). There is no third pseudo-URI option, AFAICT. So, in my humble
>> opinion the docs are correct, it is the implementation that needs to catch
>> up.
> 
> You are wrong. There is one common interface: that is pseudi-URI. URI is
> not an option.
> 
>> If an application passes a URI and expects that it is not interpreted as
>> such is already broken.
> 
> And it always was. Breaking something that works is worse than having
> something that never worked still not work.
> 
>> 			  I could make a patch adding support for escape
>> sequences as well, but it seems you would not accept it. Am I correct?
> 
> As is, "fixing" the file: protocol paths to be treated as URIs would be
> an API break, it is not acceptable.
> 
> You can propose patches to make FFmpeg support real URIs instead / in
> addition to its old pseudo-URI syntax, but you would need to design with
> API compatibility in mind.

Ok, thanks for your comments.