[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Support for rotated MP4 Movies (bug #2882)

[Matthias Keiser]

Am 07.02.2014 um 15:05 schrieb Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>:

>> +    //FIXME: relying on STREAM_CAN_FASTSEEK to decide if we can parse
>> +    // a file is a bad heuristic, because local files are always
>> +    // fast-seekable.
> 
> So? I don't get this comment.

It just seemed to me that some stream module could return false for STREAM_CAN_FASTSEEK for a fragmented file, so we decide to handle it, but the same file stored locally would not be handled. That didn't make sense to me. But maybe we always have a smooth box in this case?