[vlc-devel] vlc npt start time not working

[xxiao8]

On 11/12/2014 08:14 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le 2014-11-12 14:00, xxiao8 a écrit :
>> We're trying to play RTSP and would like to seek into the video file
>> on the server, after setting 'start time' we noticed(by capturing the
>> packets) that npt is always 0 instead of the time offset we set under
>> VLC,.
>
> There is a known bug whereby VLC always starts at zero, but it should 
> seek properly instants later.
>
if the packet did not even carry the npt info to the server, how could 
it seek properly instants later? Is VLC doing some buffering/seeking 
locally?

Thanks,
xxiao