[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf: add samba protocol via libsmbclient

[wm4]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:20:46 +0200
Lukasz Marek <lukasz.m.luki2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---
>  Changelog                  |   1 +
>  configure                  |   5 ++
>  doc/general.texi           |   1 +
>  doc/protocols.texi         |  29 +++++++
>  libavformat/Makefile       |   1 +
>  libavformat/allformats.c   |   1 +
>  libavformat/libsmbclient.c | 207 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 245 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 libavformat/libsmbclient.c

Some of us were wondering why this would be needed?

You can mount samba shares directly in most (all?) desktop OSes.