Stream Extractor

If a stream can be viewed as a directory, such as when opening a compressed archive, a stream-extractor is used to get access to the entities inside said stream. More...

Collaboration diagram for Stream Extractor:

Modules
	Stream Extractor Internals

Data Structures
struct	stream_extractor_t
struct	stream_directory_t

Macros
#define	vlc_stream_NewMRL(a, b)   vlc_stream_NewMRL(VLC_OBJECT(a), b)

Typedefs
typedef struct stream_extractor_t	stream_extractor_t
typedef struct stream_directory_t	stream_directory_t

Functions
stream_t *	vlc_stream_NewMRL (vlc_object_t *obj, const char *mrl)
	Create a stream for the data referred to by a Media Resource Locator (MRL). More...
char *	vlc_stream_extractor_CreateMRL (stream_directory_t *, char const *subentry)
	Create a relative MRL for the associated entity. More...

Attach a stream-extractor to the passed stream
These functions are used to attach a stream extractor to an already existing stream. As hinted by their names, vlc_stream_extractor_Attach will attach an entity-extractor, whereas vlc_stream_directory_Attach will attach a stream-directory. Parameters [out] stream a pointer-to-pointer to stream, *stream will refer to the attached stream on success, and left untouched on failure. identifier (if present) NULL or a c-style string referring to the desired entity module_name NULL or an explicit stream-extractor module name Returns VLC_SUCCESS if a stream-extractor was successfully attached, an error-code on failure.
int	vlc_stream_extractor_Attach (stream_t **source, char const *identifier, char const *module_name)
int	vlc_stream_directory_Attach (stream_t **source, char const *module_name)

Detailed Description

If a stream can be viewed as a directory, such as when opening a compressed archive, a stream-extractor is used to get access to the entities inside said stream.

A stream-extractor can do one of two things;

• lists the logical entries within a stream:
  • type = stream_directory_t
  • capability = "stream_directory"
• extract data associated with one specific entry within a stream:
  • type = stream_extractor_t
  • capability = "stream_extractor"

Macro Definition Documentation

vlc_stream_NewMRL

#define vlc_stream_NewMRL	(		a,
			b
	)		vlc_stream_NewMRL(VLC_OBJECT(a), b)

Typedef Documentation

stream_directory_t

typedef struct stream_directory_t stream_directory_t

stream_extractor_t

typedef struct stream_extractor_t stream_extractor_t

Function Documentation

vlc_stream_directory_Attach()

int vlc_stream_directory_Attach	(	stream_t **	source,
		char const *	module_name
	)

References StreamExtractorAttach().

Referenced by InputStreamHandleAnchor().

vlc_stream_extractor_Attach()

int vlc_stream_extractor_Attach	(	stream_t **	source,
		char const *	identifier,
		char const *	module_name
	)

References StreamExtractorAttach().

Referenced by stream_extractor_AttachParsed().

vlc_stream_extractor_CreateMRL()

char* vlc_stream_extractor_CreateMRL	(	stream_directory_t *	,
		char const *	subentry
	)

Create a relative MRL for the associated entity.

This function shall be used by stream_directory_t's in order to generate an MRL that refers to an entity within the stream. Normally this function will only be invoked within pf_readdir in order to get the virtual path of the listed items.

Warning

the returned value is to be freed by the caller

Parameters

extractor	the stream_directory_t for which the entity belongs
subentry	the name of the entity in question

Returns

a pointer to the resulting MRL on success, NULL on failure

References stream_t::psz_url, stream_directory_t::source, and StreamExtractorCreateMRL().

vlc_stream_NewMRL()

stream_t* vlc_stream_NewMRL	(	vlc_object_t *	obj,
		const char *	mrl
	)

Create a stream for the data referred to by a Media Resource Locator (MRL).

This function will create a Stream that reads from the specified Media Resource Locator (MRL), potentially making use of Stream Extractors to access named entities within the data read from the original source.

• See the Media Resource Locator (MRL) specification for further information.
• The returned resource shall be deleted through vlc_stream_Delete.

Warning

This function is only to be used when Media Resource Locator (MRL) functionality is explicitly needed. vlc_stream_NewURL shall be used where applicable.

Parameters

obj	the owner of the requested stream
mrl	the mrl for which the stream_t should be created

Returns

NULL on error, a pointer to stream_t on success.

References msg_Err, msg_Warn, stream_priv_t::stream, stream_extractor_AttachParsed(), vlc_stream_Delete(), and vlc_stream_NewURL().