[FFmpeg-devel] [rfc] Applehttp proto documentation Was: [FFmpeg-commits] Add Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler

[Martin Storsjö]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Luca Barbato wrote:

> On 03/07/2011 12:02 AM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > Please add some docs in protocols.texi, so that people know how to use
> > it.
> 
> Something like that would be enough?
> 

> diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi
> index 29f5c90..d67703c 100644
> --- a/doc/protocols.texi
> +++ b/doc/protocols.texi
> @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ supported protocols.
>  
>  A description of the currently available protocols follows.
>  
> + at section applehttp
> +
> +Read Apple Http Live Streaming compliant segmented mpegts stream as
> +a single mpegts. m3u8 playlists can be remote http resources or local
> +files, http resources being the default.

I'm not sure if it's necessary to mention mpegts here - there's nothing
inherent in it requiring that, although that's mostly the case. IIRC
they also do support mp3 via the same mechanism - I'm not familiar with
mp3 on that level, but I'd guess it also would work through this same
protocol handler that just concatenates the data.

> +
> + at example
> +applehttp://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
> +applehttp+file://path/to/local/resource.m3u8
> + at end example
> +

Perhaps an example with applehttp+http:// just for clarity, too?

// Martin