a href="ffmpeg-protocols.html#toc-Description">1 Description</a></h1>

<p>This document describes the input and output protocols provided by the
libavformat library.
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<h1 class="chapter"><a href="ffmpeg-protocols.html#toc-Protocol-Options">2 Protocol Options</a></h1>

<p>The libavformat library provides some generic global options, which
can be set on all the protocols. In addition each protocol may support
so-called private options, which are specific for that component