[FFmpeg-devel] Usecases of the AVIODir* API

Mariusz Szczepańczyk mszczepanczyk at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 04:44:35 CEST 2015


On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:58:19PM +0200, Mariusz Szczepańczyk wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Some people on IRC asked about the uses of the AVIODir* API and it
> > > seems several developers do not know what the API is usefull for.
> > >
> > > I think this should be documented better
> > >
> > > also what can it be usefull for, random example:
> > > A "file open" dialog in a player. Without such API in a ffmpeg lib
> > > players would have to duplicate quite some code to list non local
> > > files.
> > >
> > >
> > Hi,
> >
> > where do you think such documentation should be added?
> >
> > Doxygen? doc/libavformat.texi?
>
> hmm, i dont know, you
> doc/libavformat.texi seems very short so it feels out of place but a
> link could maybe be added
>
> doxygen seems the better choice for the text itself
> but maybe someone has better idea(s)
>

Hey, I've written some docs. Sorry for the delay.

Mariusz
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