manpage: explicitly document protocols

DOCS/man/en/mpv.rst

@@ -15,18 +15,6 @@ SYNOPSIS
 | **mpv** [options] [file|URL|-]
 | **mpv** [options] --playlist=PLAYLIST
 | **mpv** [options] files
-| **mpv** bd://[title][/device] [options]
-| **mpv** bdnav://[title][/device] [options]
-| **mpv** dvd://[title|[start\_title]-end\_title][/device] [options]
-| **mpv** dvdnav://[longest|menu|title][/device] [options]
-| **mpv** \tv://[channel][/input_id] [options]
-| **mpv** \pvr:// [options]
-| **mpv** \dvb://[card\_number@]channel [options]
-| **mpv** \mf://[filemask|\@listfile] [-mf options] [options]
-| **mpv** cdda://track[-endtrack][:speed][/device] [options]
-| **mpv** [file|mms[t]|http|httpproxy|rt[s]p|ftp|udp|smb]://[user:pass\@]URL[:port] [options]
-| **mpv** edl://[edl specification as in edl-mpv.rst]
-
 
 DESCRIPTION
 ===========
@@ -446,6 +434,85 @@ taking screenshots is handled by the VOs, and adding the screenshot filter will
 break hardware decoding. (The filter may still be useful for taking screenshots
 at a certain point within the video chain when using multiple video filters.)
 
+PROTOCOLS
+=========
+
+``http://...``, ``https://``, ...
+    Many network protocols are supported, but the protocol prefix must always
+    be specified. mpv will never attempt to guess whether a filename is
+    actually a network address. A protocol prefix is always required.
+
+``-``
+    Play data from stdin.
+
+``smb://PATH``
+    Play a path from  Samba share.
+
+``bd://[title][/device]`` ``--bluray-device=PATH``
+    Play a Blu-Ray disc. Currently, this does not accept iso files. Instead,
+    you must mount the iso file as filesystem, and point ``--bluray-device``
+    to the mounted directly.
+
+``bdnav://[title][/device]``
+    Play a Blu-Ray disc, with navigation features enabled. This feature is
+    permanently experimental.
+
+``dvd://[title|[starttitle]-endtitle][/device]`` ``--dvd-device=PATH``
+    Play a DVD. If you want dvdnav menus, use ``dvd://menu``. If no title
+    is given, the longest title is auto-selected.
+
+    ``dvdnav://`` is an old alias for ``dvd://`` and does exactly the same
+    thing.
+
+``dvdread://...:``
+    Play a DVD using the old libdvdread code. This is what MPlayer and older
+    mpv versions use for ``dvd://``. Use is discouraged. It's provided only
+    for compatibility and for transition.
+
+``tv://[channel][/input_id]`` ``--tv-...``
+    Analogue TV via V4L. Also useful for webcams. (Linux only.)
+
+``pvr://`` ``--pvr-...``
+    PVR. (Linux only.)
+
+``dvb://[cardnumber@]channel`` ``--dvbin-...``
+    Digital TV via DVB. (Linux only.)
+
+``mf://[filemask|@listfile]`` ``--mf-...``
+    Play a series of images as video.
+
+``cdda://track[-endtrack][:speed][/device]`` ``--cdrom-device=PATH`` ``--cdda-...``
+    Play CD.
+
+``lavf://...``
+    Access any FFmpeg/Libav libavformat protocol. Basically, this passed the
+    string after the ``//`` directly to libavformat.
+
+``av://type:options``
+    This is intended for using libavdevice inputs. ``type`` is the libavdevice
+    demuxer name, and ``options`` is the (pseudo-)filename passed to the
+    demuxer.
+
+    For example, ``mpv av://lavfi:mandelbrot`` makes use of the libavfilter
+    wrapper included in libavdevice, and will use the ``mandelbrot`` source
+    filter to generate input data.
+
+    ``avdevice://`` is an alias.
+
+``file://PATH``
+    A local path as URL. Might be useful in some special use-cases. Note that
+    ``PATH`` itself should start with a third ``/`` to make the path an
+    absolute path.
+
+``edl://[edl specification as in edl-mpv.rst]``
+    Stitch together parts of multiple files and play them.
+
+``null://``
+    Simulate an empty file.
+
+``memory://data``
+    Use the ``data`` part as source data.
+
 .. include:: options.rst
 
 .. include:: ao.rst