[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: HTTP search segfault

[eviv bulgroz]

attila wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:52:03PM +0100, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
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>>Roberto Togni wrote:
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>>>>cat a.avi b.avi | mplayer -
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>>>Is this supposed to work at all? How can MPlayer tell one file from the  
>>>other? Maybe i'm completely worong, but it's different from
>>>mplayer a.avi b.avi
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>>It should work, as long as the codecs used are the same.
>>But you shouldn't expect A/V sync to be ok in the second file.
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>Just checked it with the samples i have here.
>MPlayer (cvs from friday that is) exits with an EOF after the
>first file.
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Yes, I resubmitted the patch
http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2004-July/027198.html
but nobody seems to find the time to apply it though

>I also noticed that MPlayer cannot seek forward in the avi (complaining
>about not having an index) although it should be possible IMHO.
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>Is this supposed to be like this or are these "bugs" ?
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It could be done but right now the avi seeking code is using the index.
So you can rebuild the index or seek forward to the read it, but you 
can't seek backwards afterwards.