avformat: Document urls a bit

Spell-checked-by: Moritz Barsnick <barsnick@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
pull/172/head
Michael Niedermayer 9 years ago
parent 61fb70c386
commit 3130556c0e
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      libavformat/avformat.h

@ -78,6 +78,18 @@
* if its AVClass is non-NULL, and the protocols layer. See the discussion on
* nesting in @ref avoptions documentation to learn how to access those.
*
* @section urls
* URL strings in libavformat are made of a scheme/protocol, a ':', and a
* scheme specific string. URLs without a scheme and ':' used for local files
* are supported but deprecated. "file:" should be used for local files.
*
* It is important that the scheme string is not taken from untrusted
* sources without checks.
*
* Note that some schemes/protocols are quite powerful, allowing access to
* both local and remote files, parts of them, concatenations of them, local
* audio and video devices and so on.
*
* @defgroup lavf_decoding Demuxing
* @{
* Demuxers read a media file and split it into chunks of data (@em packets). A

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