Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Accept a colon in the path of a URI, instead of stripping preceding characters.

["softworkz ." <softworkz-at-hotmail.com@ffmpeg.org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Timothy
> Allen via ffmpeg-devel
> Sent: Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2025 21:09
> To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
> Cc: Timothy Allen <tim@treehouse.org.za>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Accept a colon in the path of a URI,
> instead of stripping preceding characters.
> 
> On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 18:56 +0000, softworkz . wrote:
> > Why do you think it would require control over the server side?
> 
> The original ticket is referring to HLS, and specifically the manifest
> of HLS, which means a remotely-hosted M3U playlist.
> 
> In principle, the user could download the playlist, convert any
> relative URLs to absolute URLs, and percent-encode the URLs.
> 
> In practice, for most users, the URL will simply not play (or will skip
> any segments containing colons in the URL) without any indication of
> why the URL is failing.

What I mean and what the comment in the ticket is probably suggesting, 
is that the HLS demuxer should URL-encode the URL after combining the 
base url with the segment file name before making a request for the 
segment.

PS: Thanks for switching to plain-text.

Best,
sw


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