[MPlayer-users] Using network protocols without global network initialization. Please use avformat_network_init()

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 07:28:10PM +0200, wm4 wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 19:09:52 +0200
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 06:34:04PM +1000, andrew wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:00:46PM +0200, Rasz wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I know it comes from libavformat/network.c, but what does that mean?
> > > 
> > > I am also keen to know as this often spams my terminal :)
> > 
> > FFmpeg's libavformat wants you to call a special function when you want to
> > use any networking protocols.
> > However it is not generally possible to know if your use of libavformat
> > will end up using networking protocols or not.
> > So what libavformat "wants" isn't really possible to do in a sensible
> > way and thus I have so far just ignored these printouts.
> > However I guess we would make it happy in the cases where
> > it is easy (like https:// URLs) and thus reduce the number
> > of cases where this spam appears.
> 
> That's a funny thing to consider libavformat and libavcodec generally
> need global init calls (the register functions).

I have not analyzed the cost of the network init code.
I assumed there is some significant cost, otherwise
those other init calls could just do the network init
and this separate function is useless and the printout
spam pointless.
Either way around, I can't figure out any explanation
that ends with anything other than this API and message
being idiotic.