Hi,

I would like to use libavformat to parse a HTTP stream. It already
includes a http client, but I would like to have more information
about the download process itself so I would like to use libcurl for
it.
My problem is that libavformat wants to parse data from a buffer
allocated with av_malloc() and naturally libcurl doesn't store the
data in such a buffer. Since performance is a problem, copying the
data from one buffer to the other is not an option.

I see I could use curl_easy_recv(). But the whole point of using
libcurl here is not having to think about the HTTP headers.

I would like to have a "CURLOPT_BUFFER" option, so I can instruct
libcurl to copy the data there directly. What are your thoughts about
adding it/accepting a patch?

Thanks.

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