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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