[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Proof of Concept: http: add range support

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 12 septembre 2016, 20:07:32 Francois Cartegnie a écrit :
> Variable hack for creating streamUrl with
> Byte-Range support, required for switching
> adaptive backend to regular access.

This makes no sense. Not only is this patch über-ugly but it would lead to 
complete garbage for non-seekable and/or content-encoded resources.

Plus the performance will suck if you don't reuse the HTTP connection manager 
across ranges.

In other words, I can't see this working properly through the VLC stream 
abstraction, as opposed to using vlc_http_resource et al. directly.

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