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22 * unbuffered private I/O API
25 #ifndef AVFORMAT_URL_H
26 #define AVFORMAT_URL_H
29 #include "libavformat/version.h"
32 #define URL_PROTOCOL_FLAG_NESTED_SCHEME 1 /*< The protocol name can be the first part of a nested protocol scheme */
34 extern URLInterruptCB *url_interrupt_cb;
38 * Create a URLContext for accessing to the resource indicated by
39 * url, but do not initiate the connection yet.
41 * @param puc pointer to the location where, in case of success, the
42 * function puts the pointer to the created URLContext
43 * @param flags flags which control how the resource indicated by url
45 * @return 0 in case of success, a negative value corresponding to an
46 * AVERROR code in case of failure
48 int ffurl_alloc(URLContext **h, const char *url, int flags);
51 * Connect an URLContext that has been allocated by ffurl_alloc
53 int ffurl_connect(URLContext *h);
56 * Create an URLContext for accessing to the resource indicated by
59 * @param puc pointer to the location where, in case of success, the
60 * function puts the pointer to the created URLContext
61 * @param flags flags which control how the resource indicated by url
63 * @return 0 in case of success, a negative value corresponding to an
64 * AVERROR code in case of failure
66 int ffurl_open(URLContext **h, const char *url, int flags);
69 * Read up to size bytes from the resource accessed by h, and store
70 * the read bytes in buf.
72 * @return The number of bytes actually read, or a negative value
73 * corresponding to an AVERROR code in case of error. A value of zero
74 * indicates that it is not possible to read more from the accessed
75 * resource (except if the value of the size argument is also zero).
77 int ffurl_read(URLContext *h, unsigned char *buf, int size);
80 * Read as many bytes as possible (up to size), calling the
81 * read function multiple times if necessary.
82 * This makes special short-read handling in applications
83 * unnecessary, if the return value is < size then it is
84 * certain there was either an error or the end of file was reached.
86 int ffurl_read_complete(URLContext *h, unsigned char *buf, int size);
89 * Write size bytes from buf to the resource accessed by h.
91 * @return the number of bytes actually written, or a negative value
92 * corresponding to an AVERROR code in case of failure
94 int ffurl_write(URLContext *h, const unsigned char *buf, int size);
97 * Change the position that will be used by the next read/write
98 * operation on the resource accessed by h.
100 * @param pos specifies the new position to set
101 * @param whence specifies how pos should be interpreted, it must be
102 * one of SEEK_SET (seek from the beginning), SEEK_CUR (seek from the
103 * current position), SEEK_END (seek from the end), or AVSEEK_SIZE
104 * (return the filesize of the requested resource, pos is ignored).
105 * @return a negative value corresponding to an AVERROR code in case
106 * of failure, or the resulting file position, measured in bytes from
107 * the beginning of the file. You can use this feature together with
108 * SEEK_CUR to read the current file position.
110 int64_t ffurl_seek(URLContext *h, int64_t pos, int whence);
113 * Close the resource accessed by the URLContext h, and free the
116 * @return a negative value if an error condition occurred, 0
119 int ffurl_close(URLContext *h);
122 * Return the filesize of the resource accessed by h, AVERROR(ENOSYS)
123 * if the operation is not supported by h, or another negative value
124 * corresponding to an AVERROR error code in case of failure.
126 int64_t ffurl_size(URLContext *h);
129 * Return the file descriptor associated with this URL. For RTP, this
130 * will return only the RTP file descriptor, not the RTCP file descriptor.
132 * @return the file descriptor associated with this URL, or <0 on error.
134 int ffurl_get_file_handle(URLContext *h);
137 * Register the URLProtocol protocol.
139 * @param size the size of the URLProtocol struct referenced
141 int ffurl_register_protocol(URLProtocol *protocol, int size);
143 #endif //AVFORMAT_URL_H