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

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 7/9/2025 3:28 PM, Marvin Scholz wrote:
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> On 9 Jul 2025, at 11:18, Steven Liu wrote:
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>> Marvin Scholz <epirat07-at-gmail.com at ffmpeg.org> 于2025年7月9日周三 03:14写道：
>> Hi Marvin,
>>
>>>
>>> The use of this protocol was already discouraged and warned about
>>> for years with the recommendation to use the HLS demuxer instead.
>> What about make deprecated warning to users and remove it next major version?
> 
> You mean change the discouraged to deprecated? We could do that but IMHO
> the previous message was quite clear it shouldn't be used anymore.
> 
> But I don't mind waiting another year for this till next major
> bump after 8.0, if thats what people prefer.

I didn't even know this existed. Specially with that message, it seems 
fair game to me to just remove it.