[FFmpeg-devel] Would a crypto file be acceptable?

[Gregor Riepl]

> The result should be no need to provide "crypto://". The ffmpeg file format
> detection should detect that ".crypto" should be handled by the crypto
> plugin.

Instead of a custom descriptor file format that is only used for this 
particular special case, you could also define a custom URI, such as:

encrypted-media://key-format:aes128/key:12345667abcdef/iv:12345678/uri:file%3A%2F%2F%2Ftmp%2Ffile.mp4