[FFmpeg-devel] [rfc] Applehttp proto documentation Was: [FFmpeg-commits] Add Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Monday 2011-03-07 02:58:04 +0100, Luca Barbato encoded:
> On 03/07/2011 12:02 AM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > Please add some docs in protocols.texi, so that people know how to use
> > it.
> 
> Something like that would be enough?
> 
> lu
> 
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> Luca Barbato
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> diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi
> index 29f5c90..d67703c 100644
> --- a/doc/protocols.texi
> +++ b/doc/protocols.texi
> @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ supported protocols.
>  
>  A description of the currently available protocols follows.
>  
> + at section applehttp
> +
> +Read Apple Http Live Streaming compliant segmented mpegts stream as

Nit: HTTP, here and below.

> +a single mpegts. m3u8 playlists can be remote http resources or local

> +files, http resources being the default.
> +
> + at example
> +applehttp://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
> +applehttp+file://path/to/local/resource.m3u8
> + at end example
> +

Uhm, maybe something more descriptive, for example which is the
difference between applehttp and applehttp+file?

Also it should specify that the resource is an M3U8 playlist file.
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