[vlc-devel] RTSP client 'trick play' support. When will it ever work??

[Glen Gray]

On 9 Jul 2009, at 20:29, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Hence, I infer VLC/live555 should not rely on the PLAY response to  
> determine
> the timespan of a media. That leaves the result of DESCRIBE as the  
> only
> option.
>
> (Ideally, VLC would have some implement some kind of progress bar,  
> even when
> it does not know the length of a _seekable_ media. Currently, it  
> will show the
> length as 00:00 and the UIs will prevent seeking completely.)
>


Unfortunately this puts us right back at the same impasse
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Glen Gray
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