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authorRicardo Constantino <wiiaboo@gmail.com>2017-01-25 15:33:05 +0000
committerRicardo Constantino <wiiaboo@gmail.com>2017-01-25 15:40:56 +0000
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stream_lavf: add support for data URIs
Only FFmpeg supports them and they need to be in the format data:// like other protocols or prefixed with ffmpeg:// or lavf://. Closes #4058
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@@ -673,6 +673,10 @@ PROTOCOLS
either aliases to documented protocols, or are just redirections to
protocols implemented and documented in FFmpeg.
+ ``data:`` is supported in FFmpeg (not in Libav), but needs to be in the
+ format ``data://``. This is done to avoid ambiguity with filenames. You
+ can also prefix it with ``lavf://`` or ``ffmpeg://``.
+
``ytdl://...``
By default, the youtube-dl hook script (enabled by default for mpv CLI)
only looks at http URLs. Prefixing an URL with ``ytdl://`` forces it to