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<font face="Bitstream Charter">Greetings all, <br>
<br>
Tags: AVFormat, url.h, version 3.0.7, Ubuntu<br>
Summary: Need help finding out how to update ancient code to new
standards. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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 <br>
<br>
"#include <url.h>"<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
We have a github issue for this (Vegastrike-Taose #11) and any
guidance would be appreciated getting this compilation error
fixed. <br>
<br>
Kindest Regards<br>
Taose<br>
<br>
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References<br>
Trac #6211, Taose Access:
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6211#ticket">https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6211#ticket</a>], 2017<br>
Trac #2059, Mustrumr Access:
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6211#ticket">https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6211#ticket</a>], 2012<br>
Vegastrike-Taose #11, Taose Access:
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/Taose/Vegastrike-taose/issues/11">https://github.com/Taose/Vegastrike-taose/issues/11</a>], 2017<br>
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