[Libav-user] How do I work around no url.h

[Brian Brice]

It sounds like you're wanting to access the new APIs within libavformat/avio.h.

It's not exactly a drop-in replacement.  Things have changed quite a
bit since those old URL days.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Lucy_ <lucifer.stmichael at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Tags: AVFormat, url.h, version 3.0.7, Ubuntu
> Summary: Need help finding out how to update ancient code to new standards.
>
> I recently posted a bug (Trac #6211) because I wasn't sure how otherwise to
> contact the developers. A change (Trac #2059) approximately four years ago
> lead to the Url.h being removed from Avformat installation. At around the
> same time development for Vega Strike dried up and the Open Source project
> was all but mothballed.
>
> Now, I am working through the project to bring the stable release back to
> some kind of functionality and to actually get it compiled. With the changes
> that FFMPEG has made, this has become all but impossible. At least not
> without help and guidance given what I can only assume is a lack of
> documentation in the area.
>
> Myself and a few others were working on an "incomplete type definition" of
> some kind relating to "h->priv_data =f;" or _url_open(). Solutions posted on
> Stack Overflow for similar problems indicated that there was an include
> missing. Given how this worked before, I did think this was odd at the time,
> but nevertheless from looking at the documentation for the FFMPEG Avformat
> library, we found what should be included and typed in
>
> "#include <url.h>"
>
> Very quickly, this met with a fatal: file not found, compilation error.
> After a fair few hours scouring, and making rather silly attempts at fixing
> it (now that we look back) I went to actually go find the file, only to find
> it wasn't present at all in the library or even associated libraries. An
> online search took some digging and some custom search commands to find Trac
> #2059 that indicated url.h had been removed entirely.
>
> Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any documentation to assist with
> working my way around this, particularly as the documentation for the Vega
> Strike project is also woefully lacking. Hence I am writing to the mailing
> list to find out how to bring it up to spec, searching for access to
> information where we can read up.
>
> We have a github issue for this (Vegastrike-Taose #11) and any guidance
> would be appreciated getting this compilation error fixed.
>
> Kindest Regards
> Taose
>
>
> References
> Trac #6211, Taose Access: [https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6211#ticket], 2017
> Trac #2059, Mustrumr Access: [https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6211#ticket],
> 2012
> Vegastrike-Taose #11, Taose Access:
> [https://github.com/Taose/Vegastrike-taose/issues/11], 2017
>
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