[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] libavformat: add "capture:" protocol

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 07:10:42PM +1000, Timothy Lee wrote:
> On 04/03/2017 06:35 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
> >Hi. Thanks for the patch.
> >
> >Le quartidi 14 germinal, an CCXXV, Timothy Lee a écrit :
> >>Capture is an input stream capture protocol that dumps the input stream to a
> >>file.  The default name of the output file is "capture.dat", but it can be
> >>changed using the "capture_file" option.
> >>
> >>capture.c borrows heavily from cache.c.
> >Can you explain more precisely how and why? Borrowing code often means
> >features could be merged or should be more clearly separated, depending
> >on cases.
> 
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> Thanks for your quick reply.  Regarding the almost direct copy of
> code from cache.c, I previously submitted a patch on 31 March that
> adds a "cache_file" option to the cache protocol.  It was intended
> to allow a specifically named cache file to serve as a dump of the
> input stream.
> 
> Michael Niedermayer explained that his intention was to maintain a
> caching system that was more consistent with how a browser's cache
> works, and my changes to the cache protocol was not appropriate.

both can be done in cache.
the primary way of caching in cache.c should be automatic though
and not require the user to manually set it up per url

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