[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lavf/file: Add proper support for authority in file URIs.

[Nicolas George]

Andrey Semashev (2018-11-29):
>				     Nowdays, there is one common interface
> for interacting with ffmpeg, and this interface is URIs (or raw local
> paths). There is no third pseudo-URI option, AFAICT. So, in my humble
> opinion the docs are correct, it is the implementation that needs to catch
> up.

You are wrong. There is one common interface: that is pseudi-URI. URI is
not an option.

> If an application passes a URI and expects that it is not interpreted as
> such is already broken.

And it always was. Breaking something that works is worse than having
something that never worked still not work.

>			  I could make a patch adding support for escape
> sequences as well, but it seems you would not accept it. Am I correct?

As is, "fixing" the file: protocol paths to be treated as URIs would be
an API break, it is not acceptable.

You can propose patches to make FFmpeg support real URIs instead / in
addition to its old pseudo-URI syntax, but you would need to design with
API compatibility in mind.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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