[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC PATCH] avformat: remove HLS protocol

[Martin Storsjö]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025, Marvin Scholz wrote:

> The use of this protocol was already discouraged and warned about
> for years with the recommendation to use the HLS demuxer instead.
> ---
> doc/protocols.texi      |  20 ---
> libavformat/Makefile    |   2 -
> libavformat/hlsproto.c  | 318 ----------------------------------------
> libavformat/protocols.c |   1 -
> 4 files changed, 341 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 libavformat/hlsproto.c

I'm ok with this removal.

I'll leave it up to others to clarify if it's ok to just remove it 
outright or if we need to do some even further deprecation around it, etc. 
(We've had an explicit warning discouraging the use of this since 
9cb9c6c42dcd08746e0684eeacccf8b89b12e571 in 2012.)

// Martin