[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avfilter: add http video filter.

[Timo Rothenpieler]

Entirely outside of this filter being acceptable at all,
pulling in libcurl is not an option without major safeguards for every 
single overlapping tls library both ffmpeg and curl support.
If both are using the same library, there is a huge potential for 
libcurl being linked at all breaks ffmpegs ability to talk TLS.

On top of that, ffmpeg already has code to talk to http servers, so 
pulling in a library to do it is even less acceptable.

I also really fail to see the utility of this filter. What's stopping 
you from just making ffmpeg output raw frames and then sending them off 
via the curl cli tool or whatever else?