[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH/TOY] zip files

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 01:51:08PM +0100, Lukasz Marek wrote:
> On 27.03.2015 13:07, Peter Ross wrote:
> >---
> >this was created to test the idea proposed in https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/4374
> >as result, i think a zip:// protocol has some problems
> >
> >- strict uri syntax can only open files in current directory
> >- user shouldn't have to specify the archive format. this should be autodetected (zip, rar, ... arj)
> >- want ability to grab zip files over other protocols 'vfs:http://subtitles.org/amovie.zip:amovie.srt'
> >- default action to open the first inner file?
> 
> We duplicated out work. I implemented it too, just wanted to add
> write too and have no time recently. I submitted my version in
> separate thread.
> 
> Issue 1 and 4 are supported in my patch.
> Issue 2 is not the issue, it just need to be implemented, but in
> this case this "protocol" should be called "archive" or something.

> Regarding Issue 3 this is probably not possible with libzip. It
> allows to open archive by descriptor, so it gives possibility to get
> http's or ftp's handle in theory (or ffmpeg could created named pipe
> and push data from remote host into it), but I expect this need to
> be seekable. I haven't tested yet though.

if libzip cant be used, is there something else that can be used ?
or can libzip be extended to not have this limitation ?

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