[FFmpeg-cvslog] r12241 - trunk/libavformat/mov.c

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:35:29PM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>> The problem is that you don't see any use of this feature, and fail to
>> understand why it is useful, but you should first read specs of 'alis'
>> and Alias Record functionnality.
> 
> Hm. I only read parts of the Quicktime format specification and could
> find very little about it, but I noticed that it says:
> "A value of 'alis' indicates a file system alias record." (Chapter 2,
> page 91, "Data Reference Atom",
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QTFF/qtff.pdf).
> In which case your implementation is just plain broken, since a value of
> "http://test.com/test" then would have to open the _file_ named thus,
> whereas your implementation would try to open a http connection.
> And the generated filename indeed can start with http:// since the
> "volume" part at least in the current implementation can contain any
> string.

Please read code and specs another time, and search deeper.

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