[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat: add limit_transfer_len option

[Timothy Gu]

On Mar 30, 2014 9:17 AM, "Reimar Döffinger" <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>
wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 05:15:49PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 05:06:38PM +0200, Clément Boesch wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 05:05:56PM +0200, Clément Boesch wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 03:07:50PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > > This allows forcing smaller chunks to be read for debuging
demuxers
> > > > > and the avformat core
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > What's the use case? Is this in order to make networking code
faster in
> > > > later commits?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Read derp. Debugging only?
> >
> > yes, debuging / testing only
>
> Wouldn't it be good to have a usage example (e.g. as a FATE test) and
> possibly more documentation along with it?

> Debugging features are most useful if people know they exist.

Absolutely. You can add some more wiki pages to
http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki#DeveloperDocumentation

Timothy