[vlc-devel] [PATCH] [PATCH] Add initial-segment-number option for livehttp module

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 15 Nov, Ray Tiley wrote :
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:27:42 -0800, Ray Tiley <raytiley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The initial-segment-number option allows for passing in the number for
> > the
> > > first
> > > segment. This is useful if you want to append to an existing live
> > > stream.
> >
> > This is somewhat questionable... how will the caller know what the last
> > segment was? Presumably, the previous incantation of VLC was responsible
> > for keeping track of that, rather than the caller script.
> >
> 
> In my use case VLC is not generating the manifest files, so I know exactly
> what the next sequence # should be. The option is similar to the
> -initial-sequence-number -I in Apple's mediastreamingsegmenter tool.

And there are many other usecases, of course. Notably with ad
integration

With my kindest regards,

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