[Ffmpeg-devel] Patch to allow use of already open files

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:01:56PM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > +    h->is_streamed = 1;
> >
> > why?
> 
> As I mentioned, I think that this is only useful for non-file file descriptors 
> (otherwise why wouldn't you just use the file protocol), so you're probably 
> using a non-file file descriptor like a pipe or a socket, so it seemed 
> sensible to set this.

Try using lseek to seek 0 bytes from current position. If it returns
error, set is_streamed=1. Better?

Rich