libmms 0.3 review

libmms is a library implementing the MMS streaming protocol, used by most Windows Media streams. libmms library is used by the GSt

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: libmms Team

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libmms is a library implementing the MMS streaming protocol, used by most Windows Media streams.

libmms library is used by the GStreamer MMS plugin, but is not tied to GStreamer or any other project.

LibMMS was created out of need for common library that would remedy current situation where each Free Software project maintains its own implementation of MMS protocol handling, creating unnecessary code and effort duplication and introducing feature disparity as not every bugfix gets into each of them.

It also addresses need for LGPL licensed code for that task, as every current implementation is licensed as GPL, thus knocking out many projects that do not use GPL themselves.

LibMMS is intended to be small and simple, being useful for any project that needs MMS handling functionality. It is constructed in such a way that allows plugging custom I/O implementation, thus being easy to integrate with custom framework, and providing a way to add timeouted or cancelable I/O etc.

LibMMS code is based on amazing work done by SDP guys (http://get.to/sdp) Without the specs they've reverse-engineered, there won't be any free implementation of MMS handling today.

What's New in This Release:
fix the recent security vulnerability in libmms. Thanks to Wesley J. Landaker, Martin Pitt and Matthias Hopf.
Add http proxy functionality. Thanks to Daniel Rogers!