/*****************************************************************************
* stream.h: Input stream functions
*****************************************************************************
- * Copyright (C) 1998-2008 the VideoLAN team
+ * Copyright (C) 1998-2008 VLC authors and VideoLAN
* Copyright (C) 2008 Laurent Aimar
* $Id$
*
* Authors: Laurent Aimar <fenrir@via.ecp.fr>
*
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA.
*****************************************************************************/
-#if defined(__PLUGIN__) || defined(__BUILTIN__) || !defined(__LIBVLC__)
-# error This header file can only be included from LibVLC.
-#endif
-
-#ifndef _INPUT_STREAM_H
-#define _INPUT_STREAM_H 1
+#ifndef LIBVLC_INPUT_STREAM_H
+#define LIBVLC_INPUT_STREAM_H 1
#include <vlc_common.h>
#include <vlc_stream.h>
+#include <vlc_charset.h>
struct stream_text_t
{
stream_t *stream_CommonNew( vlc_object_t * );
void stream_CommonDelete( stream_t * );
-/* */
-stream_t *stream_AccessNew( access_t *p_access, bool );
+/**
+ * This function creates a stream_t from a provided access_t.
+ *
+ * An optional NULL terminated list of file may be provided. The content
+ * of these extra files will be concatenated after to the main access.
+ *
+ * XXX ppsz_list is treated as const (I failed to avoid a warning when
+ * using const keywords for pointer of pointers)
+ */
+stream_t *stream_AccessNew( access_t *p_access, char **ppsz_list );
-/* */
+/**
+ * This function creates a new stream_t filter.
+ *
+ * You must release it using stream_Delete unless it is used as a
+ * source to another filter.
+ */
stream_t *stream_FilterNew( stream_t *p_source,
const char *psz_stream_filter );
+/**
+ * This function creates a chain of filters:
+ * - first, automatic probed stream filters are inserted.
+ * - then, optional user filters (configured by psz_chain) are inserted.
+ * - finaly, an optional record filter is inserted if b_record is true.
+ *
+ * You must release the returned value using stream_Delete unless it is used as a
+ * source to another filter.
+ */
+stream_t *stream_FilterChainNew( stream_t *p_source,
+ const char *psz_chain,
+ bool b_record );
#endif
-