avformat: add url field to AVFormatContext

This will replace the 1024 character limited filename field. Compatiblity for
output contexts are provided by copying filename field to URL if URL is unset
and by providing an internal function for muxers to set both url and filename
at once.

Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus@passwd.hu>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index 60ab9fbc80..d1bd4902d0 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -1403,6 +1403,21 @@ typedef struct AVFormatContext {
     char filename[1024];
 
     /**
+     * input or output URL. Unlike the old filename field, this field has no
+     * length restriction.
+     *
+     * - demuxing: set by avformat_open_input(), initialized to an empty
+     *             string if url parameter was NULL in avformat_open_input().
+     * - muxing: may be set by the caller before calling avformat_write_header()
+     *           (or avformat_init_output() if that is called first) to a string
+     *           which is freeable by av_free(). Set to an empty string if it
+     *           was NULL in avformat_init_output().
+     *
+     * Freed by libavformat in avformat_free_context().
+     */
+    char *url;
+
+    /**
      * Position of the first frame of the component, in
      * AV_TIME_BASE fractional seconds. NEVER set this value directly:
      * It is deduced from the AVStream values.