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authorMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2012-02-15 01:38:34 +0100
committerMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2012-02-15 01:52:14 +0100
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'qatar/master'
* qatar/master: (21 commits) CDXL demuxer and decoder hls: Re-add legacy applehttp name to preserve interface compatibility. hlsproto: Rename the functions and context hlsproto: Encourage users to try the hls demuxer instead of the proto doc: Move the hls protocol section into the right place libavformat: Rename the applehttp protocol to hls hls: Rename the functions and context libavformat: Rename the applehttp demuxer to hls rtpdec: Support H263 in RFC 2190 format rv30: check block type validity ttadec: CRC checking movenc: Support muxing VC1 avconv: Don't split out inline sequence headers when stream copying VC1 rv34: handle size changes during frame multithreading rv40: prevent undefined signed overflow in rv40_loop_filter() rv34: use AVERROR return values in ff_rv34_decode_frame() rv34: use uint16_t for RV34DecContext.deblock_coefs librtmp: Add "lib" prefix to librtmp URLProtocol declarations. movenc: Use defines instead of hardcoded numbers for RTCP types smjpegdec: implement seeking ... Conflicts: Changelog doc/general.texi libavcodec/avcodec.h libavcodec/rv30.c libavcodec/tta.c libavcodec/version.h libavformat/Makefile libavformat/allformats.c libavformat/version.h libswscale/x86/swscale_mmx.c Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
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@@ -19,22 +19,6 @@ supported protocols.
A description of the currently available protocols follows.
-@section applehttp
-
-Read Apple HTTP Live Streaming compliant segmented stream as
-a uniform one. The M3U8 playlists describing the segments can be
-remote HTTP resources or local files, accessed using the standard
-file protocol.
-HTTP is default, specific protocol can be declared by specifying
-"+@var{proto}" after the applehttp URI scheme name, where @var{proto}
-is either "file" or "http".
-
-@example
-applehttp://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
-applehttp+http://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
-applehttp+file://path/to/local/resource.m3u8
-@end example
-
@section concat
Physical concatenation protocol.
@@ -81,6 +65,26 @@ specified with the name "FILE.mpeg" is interpreted as the URL
Gopher protocol.
+@section hls
+
+Read Apple HTTP Live Streaming compliant segmented stream as
+a uniform one. The M3U8 playlists describing the segments can be
+remote HTTP resources or local files, accessed using the standard
+file protocol.
+The nested protocol is declared by specifying
+"+@var{proto}" after the hls URI scheme name, where @var{proto}
+is either "file" or "http".
+
+@example
+hls+http://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
+hls+file://path/to/local/resource.m3u8
+@end example
+
+Using this protocol is discouraged - the hls demuxer should work
+just as well (if not, please report the issues) and is more complete.
+To use the hls demuxer instead, simply use the direct URLs to the
+m3u8 files.
+
@section http
HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol).