[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] avformat/hls: use AVIOContext new_http_request callback

[Nicolas George]

Aman Gupta (2017-12-29):
> It also makes it easier in the future to add http keepalive support to
> other consumers like the dash demuxer and the crypto protocol.

For that, the API does not need to be public, it just need to be clean.

I thought you were referring to using the hls demuxer with other
protocols that may allow connection reuse. That could justify a public
API. But we do not know what kind of parameters these other protocols
may need; maybe some of them will require flags to select parallel /
sequential requests; maybe one of them will need to return some kind of
connection handle. We do not know, therefore we need to plan carefully,
or even better: wait for an actual case. Also, naming the callback
http_something would be a misnomer.

> I'll go ahead and submit another patchset using this approach to fix
> the immediate segfault while we consider a larger API change.

Thanks. It seems to me a very sane course of action, and I have no
objection to the two patches you just sent.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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