[Ffmpeg-devel] FFMPEG RTSP for Windows

[François Revol]

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:52:20PM -0600, Michael A. Kohn wrote:
> > 
> > >> I don't know anything about Winsock, but go ahead and send 
> > > > patches for
> > >> any improvements you make. Send unified diffs: 'diff -Naur' or 
> > > > 'cvs
> > diff
> > >> -u'. If they're good changes then the patches ought to be 
> > > > considered.
> > 
> > One important thing is kinda missing from this.  The Winsock 
> > library has
> > to be intialized before it can be used.  At the top of my test 
> > program I
> > have something like this:
> > 
> > WSADATA wsaData;
> > WORD wVersionRequested=MAKEWORD(1,1);
> > int Win32isStupid;
> > 
> >   Win32isStupid=WSAStartup(wVersionRequested, &wsaData);
> >   if (Win32isStupid) return -1;
> 
> This code does not give me much confidence in your knowledge of the C
> language. The above can be done without useless temp vars:
> 
> WSADATA dummy;
> if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(1,1), &dummy)) return 1;
> 
> and I assume MAKEWORD(1,1) is just 0x0101..
> 
> BTW your variable name is misleading. It suggests that the function
> should always return -1... :)

Hmm is it reentrant or can must it only be called once ?

How can an app using libav* possibly know it has to init winsock ?

That sucks :) Just get a real OS :p

Fran?ois.