[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] GNOME-VFS layer

[Dave Lambley]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 19:22, Jan Knutar wrote:
> > Seeking can be nasty. Although GNOME-VFS does provide functions to do
> > seeking, it doesn't work for the ssh:// protocol. I've written an
> > unpleasant work around that involves dumping data and re-opening the
> > file when necessary.
> 
> That sounds even more painful than seek over HTTP & FTP in current mplayer,
> which reopens the connection and "resumes" the file at the requested seek point.

It *is* more painful. It's not too bad for playing mp3s, "seeking" to
the ID3 tag doesn't take to long over 10Mb/s Ethernet.

I had a look at GNOME CVS last night and it looks like they have ssh
seeking fixed in GNOME 2.6. Can anyone confirm this? The FreeBSD GNOME
upgrade script broke on my system :(

Cheers,
Dave