[rtmpdump] [PATCH] url comparison bug

Howard Chu hyc at highlandsun.com
Thu Dec 15 05:47:20 CET 2011


Stef wrote:
> And I can very much assure you guys, that once you solidify something in
> place these companies will do everything in their power to usurp your
> efforts.  What makes you think these companies don't watch what we're
> doing here? So if we have  to specify everything explicitly via
> command-line options, then so be it.

Exactly.

> Seriously, cmon, it's not big deal!  What's a few characters or a bit of
> pre-parsing going to cost you?

We should've dropped Windows support. At least Linux users tend to know how to 
tinker on their own, instead of whining that it's not Fully AutoMagical.

> On 15/12/2011 1:39 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
>> KSV wrote:
>>> i had one entry in my swfinfo file with url as
>>> http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/players/player5.7/player.swf. but
>>> when i
>>> tried to use the rtmp link with
>>> http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/players/player5.6/player.swf it used
>>> the info
>>> stored for 5.7 instead of retrieving new info for 5.6. it happened
>>> because it
>>> was using hlen to compare both urls instead of full comparison. why
>>> hlen?
>>> attached patch fixes the problem by comparing full urls.
>>
>> This was done to accomodate ABC Australia's iView, which uses the same
>> SWF file but with a randomly generated hash in the middle of the URL
>> on each session. Looks like a different solution is needed.
>> _______________________________________________


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