[MPlayer-dev-eng] RTMP playback with optional space-separated parameters broken... :´-(

[Howard Chu]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 06:01:51PM +0200, Manuel Reimer wrote:
>> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>>> I didn't have time for it. However I believe someone complained about
>>> it for FFmpeg already, so I suspect it has nothing to do with MPlayer
>>> but with either FFmpeg or even librtmp itself...
>>
>> Can you please give me some information on how to debug this problem?
> 
> I don't have an idea so far. Obviously finding the exact commit that
> broke it via bisection is a good way to get a start.
> 
>> I tried to check out older versions of ffmpeg (did this as long as I
>> finally got a build that fails to compile) but "ffplay" seems to
>> never have worked with the "space separated parameter" syntax. At
>> least I wasn't able to get it to do so.
> 
> To be honest I have no idea whether it worked with ffplay, I just can't
> see how it would have worked with MPlayer then.

Yes, it worked fine with ffplay. It also used to work with mplayer, either
using librtmp directly or using ffmpeg libraries. I verified all of those
options worked way back when I wrote those pieces.
> 
>> Then I tried several things with mplayer directly and found out,
>> that the "rtmp" request seems to go *always* through ffmpeg code.
>> Wasn't it possible to make mplayer use "librtmp" directly?
> 
> No, never. Really. There are/were two rtmp implementations in FFmpeg:
> just rtmp and librtmp-based.
> So one thing you could try is if it will suddenly start working if you
> disable librtmp (thus forcing it to use the other implementation)...
> Without recompiling you can also try "rtmphttp://" instead of "rtmp://",
> that should never go through librtmp.
> If that really is the case, I think you will need some way to provide
> FFmpeg options for streams, there seems to be no support for that so far.
> And the "space separated" thing probably is a bad idea, since the main
> URL can validly contain spaces...

No, that's false. URL syntax forbids embedded spaces; any spaces in a URL must
be hex escaped. That's why I chose space-separated options, because it is
impossible to confuse them with any valid component of the original URL.

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