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

[Laurent Aimar]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le jeudi 9 juillet 2009 22:34:05 Laurent Aimar, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > > (Ideally, VLC would have some implement some kind of progress bar, even
> > > when it does not know the length of a _seekable_ media.
> >
> >  That's a bit difficult without knowing the length and/or the current
> > position. How to you translate the user clicking somewhere into a position
> > ? Beside, with rtsp you never know when you can seek or not (unless I
> > missed something in that wonderfull RTSP RFC).
> 
> There are two completely separate problems. The scale/UI design is one issue. 
> Of course, it will be clumsy and RTSP servers should really specify the media 
> length in the description.
> 
> Handling the failure to seek is another one. But I think that we can already 
> cope with as the demux can do whatever it wants with the seek point, no?

 With "Playback->Jump to specific time", the request will go up to the demuxer
even if the length is zero. So the core and the gui already have a way to seek
without length.

 The problem is only a GUI problem. Without a way to convert from a slider
position to an absolute time (for RTSP) I don't see how we can seek. 
Beside, for a better interface usage, detecting when we can seek is a plus,
we actually use the fact that a length is returned to detect that for rtsp.

 Now, I have commited something that should fix most of the problem: VLC now
ignores the end time in PLAY requests if it is 0 (and so we fall back to the
one retreive in SETUP).
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fenrir