[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/7] avio: deprecate url_is_streamed

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:24:21AM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
> > AVIOContext.is_streamed field should be used directly instead.
> 
> Since we're talking about API cleanup anyway. What is this function?
> 
> A "stream" isn't a very useful concept. Why do demuxers want to know
> whether the input is a stream? They more likely want to know whether
> the input is seekable (like HTTP/1.1 with RangeRequest vs. HTTP/1.0 or
> a pipe/fifo), or whether seeking - if supported at all - is slow (like
> HTTP/1.1 with RangeRequest vs. a local seekable file). I see it used
> in a variety of different demuxers with a different implied meaning
> (seeking is slow vs. seeking is unsupported), and that is bad.

change it to:
seekable=0 //no seeking
seekable=1 //slow seeking
seekable=2 //fast seeking
enum could be used


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