On Jun 18, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: > > While it may be bugged, why even use a file: URL and not just a plain > path to the file, and avoid this whole mess?
Certainly you can work around the whole issue and I did. So this is nothing urgent. But. To me it makes a whole lot of sense to pretty much always use URLs. That saves me the trouble to distinguish between local files and other resources, like e.g. a file hosted on a web server. URLs/URIs are simply a great abstractions, making your code simpler. But only, if they work. And in the case of FFmpeg, the file:-scheme, and Windows, the documentation says, feel free to use URLs, but the implementation isn't able to handle them. I think, it would be nice to resolve this discrepancy. I spent the better part of a day figuring out, why FFmpeg does not understand correct URLs. I would like to spare others this frustrating experience. -hendrik _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
