[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Seek in http-streams

[Valentine Zaretsky]

Hi!

Attila Kinali wrote:

>On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:21:59 -0500
>D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
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>>It's probably non-interleaved. In which case there's no way to play
>>the file from stdin without 600 megs of cache.
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>It's not and i made sure it played with mplayer before
>the seeking patch was applied.
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Just checked.  Playing from stdin works in FreeBSD 4.9 and 5-C but only 
with -cache option!!!
without -cache it doesn't start to play until eof (sorry I didn't check 
it without -cache yesterday)
I have no linux at home and can't check how it works there (maybe in 
linux it wouldn't work at all)

Eviv is right, all this odd behaviour is related to strange setting of 
STREAM_SEEK_FW flag and seek_forward callback for stdin, which is not 
normally seekable indeed in any direction!

2Albeu: Maybe we have to change these very strange lines in 
libmpdemux/stream_file.c ?

lines 108-118:

len=lseek(f,0,SEEK_END); lseek(f,0,SEEK_SET);
  if(len == -1) {
    stream->seek = seek_forward;
    stream->type = STREAMTYPE_STREAM; // Must be move to STREAMTYPE_FILE
    stream->flags |= STREAM_SEEK_FW;
  } else if(len >= 0) {
    stream->seek = seek;
    stream->end_pos = len;
    stream->type = STREAMTYPE_FILE;
  }


>			Attila Kinali
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Best regards, Valentine