[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Enhancements to use asynchronous requests and persistent random access to improve http seek

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mardi 17 juin 2008 21:09:30 Bill C. Riemers, vous avez écrit :
> For the most part this is the same as my previous patch.  I just merged
> the conflicts from the revised patch for the seek bug fix and the patch
> not to send a negative byte range.

Unfortunately, the HTTP access is very messy (you must have noticed that by 
now). I am a bit concerned that making supplementary requests even when we 
don't actually seek might not be appreciated by server dudes.

More importantly, what happens if the URL refers to a "continuous" 
(non-seekable) stream, such as an MP3 radio? it is not entirely clear to me 
from reading the patch.

Regards,

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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