[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Move av_url_split to libavutil.

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 02/19/2011 07:59 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>> Well I thought the idea was that lavu was meant to have a set of standalone
>>> components that might be useful for other multimedia applications to use
>>> without wheel reinvention (or has this changed because of the recent FFmpeg
>>> developments?). It's quite useful not to have lavf as a whole
>>> dependency.
>>
>> Can you please show a concrete example that would actually use it if it
>> was moved?
>
> Assuming you have a player using libavcodec only it might make sense...

Right, but av_url_split() deals with URI handling, which is thus
already taken care of by a non-FFmpeg part, apparently. That's why
av_url_split() started off being in lavf. Why would you use it in
collaboration with lavc? Which part of lavc requires URI handling? Or
is this for apps that want to use only this part of lavf, but not
other parts? If so, where do we draw the line?

Ronald