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authorZhang Rui <bbcallen@gmail.com>2015-07-16 15:04:42 +0800
committerMichael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>2015-07-18 01:46:50 +0200
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parent72d1409e23803e8314145f610e84b47a44ba3dbc (diff)
avformat/async: support filling with a background thread.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
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@@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ supported protocols.
A description of the currently available protocols follows.
+@section async
+
+Asynchronous data filling wrapper for input stream.
+
+Fill data in a background thread, to decouple I/O operation from demux thread.
+
+@example
+async:@var{URL}
+async:http://host/resource
+async:cache:http://host/resource
+@end example
+
@section bluray
Read BluRay playlist.