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[87.211.253.60]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y16sm3675404ejd.72.2022.02.09.17.15.17 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:15:17 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Gaiser To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:13:51 +0100 Message-Id: <20220210011352.11582-1-markg85@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.35.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v5 0/1] Add IPFS protocol support. X-BeenThere: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: FFmpeg development discussions and patches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Cc: Mark Gaiser Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org Sender: "ffmpeg-devel" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: Hi, This patch series adds support for IPFS. V5: - "c->gateway" is now not modified anymore - Moved most variables to the stack - Even more strict checks with the auto detection logic - Errors are now AVERROR :) - Added more logging and changed some debug ones to info ones as they are valuable to aid debugging as a user when something goes wrong. V3 (V4): - V4: title issue from V3.. - A lot of style changes - Made url checks a lot more strict - av_asprintf leak fixes - So many changes that a diff to v2 is again not sensible. V2: - Squashed and changed so much that a diff to v1 was not sensible. The following is a short summary. In the IPFS ecosystem you access it's content by a "Content IDentifier" (CID). This CID is, in simplified terms, a hash of the content. IPFS itself is a distributed network where any user can run a node to be part of the network and access files by their CID. If any reachable node within that network has the CID, you can get it. IPFS (as a technology) has two protocols, ipfs and ipns. The ipfs protocol is the immutable way to access content. The ipns protocol is a mutable layer on top of it. It's essentially a new CID that points to a ipfs CID. This "pointer" if you will can be changed to point to something else. Much more information on how this technology works can be found here [1]. This patch series allows to interact natively with IPFS. That means being able to access files like: - ffplay ipfs:// - ffplay ipns:// There are multiple ways to access files on the IPFS network. This patch series uses the gateway driven way. An IPFS node - by default - exposes a local gateway (say http://localhost:8080) which is then used to get content from IPFS. The gateway functionality on the IPFS side contains optimizations to be as ideal to streaming data as it can be. Optimizations that the http protocol in ffmpeg also has and are thus reused for free in this approach. A note on other "more appropiate" ways, as I received some feedback on that. For ffmpeg purposes the gateway approach is ideal! There is a "libipfs" but that would spin up an ipfs node with the overhead of: - bootstrapping - connecting to nodes - finding other nodes to connect too - finally finding your file This alternative approach could take minutes before a file is played. The gateway approach immediately connects to an already running node thus gives the file the fastest. Much of the logic in this patch series is to find that gateway and essentially rewrite: "ipfs://" to: "http://localhost:8080/ipfs/" Once that's found it's forwared to the protocol handler where eventually the http protocol is going to handle it. Note that it could also be https. There's enough flexibility in the implementation to allow the user to provide a gateway. There are also public https gateways which can be used just as well. After this patch is accepted, I'll work on getting IPFS supported in: - mpv (requires this ffmpeg patch) - vlc (prefers this patch but can be made to work without this patch) - kodi (requires this ffmpeg patch) Best regards, Mark Gaiser [1] https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/ Mark Gaiser (1): avformat: Add IPFS protocol support. configure | 2 + doc/protocols.texi | 30 ++++ libavformat/Makefile | 2 + libavformat/ipfsgateway.c | 326 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ libavformat/protocols.c | 2 + 5 files changed, 362 insertions(+) create mode 100644 libavformat/ipfsgateway.c -- 2.35.1 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-request@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".