[MPlayer-dev-eng] mp3-via-http seeking problems - source code pointers requested

[Will Morton]

On 4 June 2011 13:04, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 06:05:44PM +0200, Will Morton wrote:
>> I am running mplayer inside my app by spawning it as a process in
>> slave mode and creating a simple http server on localhost which the
>> slave then calls back to. It's working but I'm having some problems
>> seeking; when I send the seek cmd via stdin, the slave complains on
>> stdout 'Stream not seekable!' and playback jumps unpredictably.
>
> Your http server is too simple. It (probably incorrectly) does not
> advertise support for seeking.

Ah ha! After streaming the file via apache and watching with
wireshark, I see what you mean.

I will fix my http server. Many thanks!

W