[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 5/5] ffserver: Add basic documentation of the architecture

Moritz Barsnick barsnick at gmx.net
Fri May 11 15:54:58 EEST 2018


On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 17:41:26 +0200, Stephan Holljes wrote:
> +In its current for this is a HTTP live-streaming server. A media file can be
                    ^ form    ^ an

> +streamed to a number of clients with the correct media file being muxed on-
> +the-fly for each client starting at the current position in the stream.

I don't understand: What's "correct"? And what is the "current
position"? From ffserver's point of view: The position if progressed to
between launch and connection of client?

> +The stream received by the clients is simply a HTTP response to an HTTP
                                                ^ an               ^ here, it's correct ;-)

> +is answered with a HTTP 400 error.
                    ^ an

Moritz


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