Just an Easy Idea... Loading from URL

[gelmo]

I think it could be useful for a lot of users, if you could load a clip oder image sequence directly from a URL. Something like:

ImageSource("http://www.myfiles.de/image01.jpg")

or

DirectShowSource("http://www.myfiles.de/clip01.m2t")

With this function you could edit material, that you do not have on your harddisc.

I think there would be a lot of useful cases for this function, but my C-Knowlege is not good enough to hack this into avisynth.

You could use this also to use the Blender Frameserver, that delivers his rendered images to http://localhost:8080/images/ppm. That would be a great alternative to Adobes commercial Dynamic Link.

So is there anyone, who knows AVIsynth development very well an could integrate this "load from URL-function" to avisynth in a few minutes ;)?

Greetings

gelmo

[Comatose]

Well, I only see it being useful in the Blender case, but in all other cases, you might as well just download it because it's going to be saved to your hard drive anyway. Not only that, but Avisynth can't stream it because it needs to know the length of the clip and stuff (I suppose you could "stream" - progressive download, if you never seek to the parts yet to be downloaded, but why?)

[Myrsloik]

Haali's splitter already supports opening files directly from http. Have fun combining it with directshowsource!