[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-commits] lavf: replace all uses of url_fskip with avio_seek

[Måns Rullgård]

Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> writes:

> On 03/02/2011 07:13 PM, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> Most of the code is essentially unchanged from a time when choosing the wrong
>> one would break things.
>> fskip will have been used for short seeks that would not cause issues with
>> non-seekable or badly seekable streams like stdin and http, fseek for
>> cases where you have given up on that.
>
> That should had been in doxy, was it?
>
>> As such the distinction served as a documentation at least.
>
> I guess it hadn't been much effective. =\

Regardless of intentions, the functions were exactly the same, skip()
simply calling seek(SEEK_CUR).  Having two ways of doing exactly the
same thing is always bad.

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