[vlc-devel] Zipped mp4 file and STREAM_CAN_FASTSEEK

[Christopher Mueller]

> Le mercredi 24 août 2011 19:26:35 Christopher Mueller, vous avez écrit :
>> > Le mercredi 24 août 2011 18:59:17 Christopher Mueller, vous avez écrit
>> :
>> >> If seek is disabled the mp4 plugin could not be used because it has
>> to
>> >> build the box structure tree at first. Therefore it needs the seek
>> >> function because it reads the unique identifier of the box and the
>> >> length
>> >> and then it jumps to the end of each box until it reaches the end of
>> the
>> >> file. If seek is disabled this is not possible and the libavformat
>> mov
>> >> demux must be used because it is designed for streaming and it dosent
>> >> has
>> >> to read the whole file at the beginning it just has to read until it
>> >> reaches the first mdat box.
>> >
>> > Yeah. And so what?
>>
>> Just want to help Peter with the understanding why it is not used maybe
>> it
>> is helpful do have a problem with that?
>
> I don't know. It sounded like you were trying to get somewhere and get
> more
> informations from someone.

This sentence dosent make sense to me or I dont understand it right ;). I
just had the same problems like Peter at the beginning of the development
of the dash plugin so I want to save him some time therefore I mentioned
that.

>
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