[MPlayer-users] Seekable http streams are not reporting stream length. Can they?

[The Wanderer]

Brian L. wrote:

> I am using mplayer to play audio files over http. I was immediately
> impressed that seeking in the media file was supported out of the box
> using http ranges.
> 
> Unfortunately, the http stream implementation doesn't report the
> stream length back to mplayer, even when the stream length is known
> based on a Content-Length header, so streams appear with
> unknown/zero/bad lengths, like this:
> 
> A:   6.1 (06.1) of -0.3 (unknown)  0.0% 45%
> 
> The same file played from the local filesystem shows up like this:
> 
> A:   2.0 (01.9) of 237.0 (03:57.0)  0.1%
> 
> It seems like adding something to stream/http.c like this:
> 
> char *tmp = http_get_field(http_hdr, "Content-Length");
> if (tmp)
> {
>     stream->end_pos = atoi(tmp);
> }
> 
> in nop_streaming_start in the case 200: // OK case would cause the
> information to be reported back and (presumably) show up in the
> feedback on mplayer's stdout.
> 
> Is there a reason not to do this? Can this feature be added?

Write up a patch (following DOCS/tech/patches.txt) and submit it to
mplayer-dev-eng, and see what they say. At a glance, I don't think
there's any reason this would be rejected.

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