[MPlayer-users] [feature/bug] rebuild index while playing

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:27:11PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Alexander Fieroch wrote:
> 
> >Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>It _has_ to implemented? By Whom? Send a patch which adds such a
> >>function if you need it!
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Ok, sorry - wrong word! I'm not speaking english as native language.
> >It would be great to have this feature in mplayer too. I'm just starting
> >to learn C and it's a long way until I can send patches.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Alexander
> > 
> >
> 
> you can't implement timeshifting with a format such as avi without 
> horrible hacks.

yes you can. realtime index building is possible with any format that
can be played without index, and it's always the correct way to do it
since it adds no overhead (compared to -idx at startup which is slow
as hell).

rich