[vlc-devel] Status of GUI support for RTSP seeking/fast-forward/reverse-play?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hello Glen,

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:25:37AM +0000, Glen Gray wrote :
> Assuming nothing has changed yet with enabling the trickplay patches,  
> then this sounds like the standard state of play. FF and Rewind  
> buttons simply trigger a rate change from standard to faster with the  
> FF button and slower with the Rew button (note less than standard  
> speed, not reverse). Also, these are using the data directly from the  
> buffer/cache so once the that's empty (when playing back at >1x) you  
> end up back at normal speed iirc at least, with no more data to speed  
> up.
Yes, this is still the case on MacOS X GUI and Unix (Qt) GUI.

> The trickplay patches tell the RTSP server to "play" at a particular  
> Scale factor, where 1.0 == normal play, 2.0 == double speed aka  
> FastForward and -2.0 == Rewind at double speed.  (2.0 is just an  
> example)

Then, should this really be in the UI or in the core when you change the
rate ?