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| author | Stephan Holljes <klaxa1337@googlemail.com> | 2015-04-11 22:26:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2015-04-11 23:10:44 +0200 |
| commit | b51027fd18f63d91ea6413a5b73becdaeae7493a (patch) | |
| tree | b72a8ee2243ecc6cd332446de42d6ff9a17a7969 /doc/protocols.texi | |
| parent | f944aeb07affc5d160b0d3dcbb6f7b54a0b1482e (diff) | |
libavformat/http.c: Make http-listen work as an input stream.
With this patch http can be used to listen for POST data to be used as an input stream.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Holljes <klaxa1337@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/protocols.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/protocols.texi | 24 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi index 5b7b6cf255..f822d81223 100644 --- a/doc/protocols.texi +++ b/doc/protocols.texi @@ -279,7 +279,29 @@ Set initial byte offset. Try to limit the request to bytes preceding this offset. @item listen -If set to 1 enables experimental HTTP server. +If set to 1 enables experimental HTTP server. This can be used to send data when +used as an output option, or read data from a client with HTTP POST when used as +an input option. +@example +# Server side (sending): +ffmpeg -i somefile.ogg -c copy -listen 1 -f ogg http://@var{server}:@var{port} + +# Client side (receiving): +ffmpeg -i http://@var{server}:@var{port} -c copy somefile.ogg + +# Client can also be done with wget: +wget http://@var{server}:@var{port} -O somefile.ogg + +# Server side (receiving): +ffmpeg -listen 1 -i http://@var{server}:@var{port} -c copy somefile.ogg + +# Client side (sending): +ffmpeg -i somefile.ogg -chunked_post 0 -c copy -f ogg http://@var{server}:@var{port} + +# Client can also be done with wget: +wget --post-file=somefile.ogg http://@var{server}:@var{port} +@end example + @end table @subsection HTTP Cookies |