[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Move av_url_split to libavutil.

[Kieran Kunhya]

> Date: Friday, 18 February, 2011, 23:57
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Kieran Kunhya <kieran at kunhya.com>
> wrote:
> > $subj
> 
> A "why" might help. The function is in lavf, where do you
> need it that
> you can't link to lavf? lavc? lavfi?

Well I thought the idea was that lavu was meant to have a set of standalone
components that might be useful for other multimedia applications to use 
without wheel reinvention (or has this changed because of the recent FFmpeg
developments?). It's quite useful not to have lavf as a whole dependency.