From ecda1d3cbe1cfb3311c2866d9130c37070dd8b38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas George <nicolas.george@normalesup.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:26:08 +0100
Subject: lavf: add data: URI scheme.

---
 doc/protocols.texi | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/protocols.texi')

diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi
index e7904590d2..a36d2a3804 100644
--- a/doc/protocols.texi
+++ b/doc/protocols.texi
@@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ ffplay concat:split1.mpeg\|split2.mpeg\|split3.mpeg
 Note that you may need to escape the character "|" which is special for
 many shells.
 
+@section data
+
+Data in-line in the URI. See @url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme}.
+
+For example, to convert a GIF file given inline with @command{ffmpeg}:
+@example
+ffmpeg -i "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhCAAIAMIEAAAAAAAA//8AAP//AP///////////////ywAAAAACAAIAAADF0gEDLojDgdGiJdJqUX02iB4E8Q9jUMkADs=" smiley.png
+@end example
+
 @section file
 
 File access protocol.
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