[FFmpeg-devel] [rfc] Applehttp proto documentation Was: [FFmpeg-commits] Add Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Monday 2011-03-07 11:19:12 +0100, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> On date Monday 2011-03-07 02:58:04 +0100, Luca Barbato encoded:
> > On 03/07/2011 12:02 AM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > Please add some docs in protocols.texi, so that people know how to use
> > > it.
> > 
> > Something like that would be enough?
> > 
> > lu
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Luca Barbato
> > Gentoo/linux
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
> > 
> 
> > diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi
> > index 29f5c90..d67703c 100644
> > --- a/doc/protocols.texi
> > +++ b/doc/protocols.texi
> > @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ supported protocols.
> >  
> >  A description of the currently available protocols follows.
> >  
> > + at section applehttp
> > +
> > +Read Apple Http Live Streaming compliant segmented mpegts stream as
> 
> Nit: HTTP, here and below.
> 
> > +a single mpegts. m3u8 playlists can be remote http resources or local
> 
> > +files, http resources being the default.
> > +
> > + at example
> > +applehttp://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
> > +applehttp+file://path/to/local/resource.m3u8
> > + at end example
> > +
> 
> Uhm, maybe something more descriptive, for example which is the
> difference between applehttp and applehttp+file?
> 
> Also it should specify that the resource is an M3U8 playlist file.

BTW would it make sense to integrate the Chase Douglas mpegts
segmenter:
http://svn.assembla.com/svn/legend/segmenter/segmenter.c

in tools, or would be better implement it as a write protocol?
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