[vlc] Re: How get the total time of stream without playing it??

[Igor Andruszkiewicz]

Thanks..


On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:03, Sigmund Augdal wrote:
> First of all, this is implementation specific discussion and should be done
> in vlc-devel at videolan.org.
> 
> second thing: I think this is a very very ugly way to do this, and I don't
> think the static variables will be the biggest problems with it. Some points:
> VLC_Init() may take very long time to finnish (since it reads all the
> plugins and stuff). The while loop may in some cases never finnish ( i.e. if 
> the stream is a udp:// stream ). You also need to pass the output of
> VLC_Create to VLC_Init() and VLC_Play() as the 0 object is allready used by
> vlc core.
> 
> Except for this it is just plain ugly. Work is being done to clean up the
> input layer so that implementing this kind of functionality will be much
> easier, but don't expect it to be ready very soon.
> 
> Sigmund
> 
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:42:40PM +0200, Igor Andruszkiewicz wrote:
> > I have stupid idea for a such function.
> > 
> > VLC_Create
> > VLC_Init(0,"--noaudio --novideo /movie/movie.avi");
> > VLC_Play(0);
> > 
> > while (position.i_size <= 0)
> >  input_Tell(...,&position);
> > 
> > VLC_Stop( 0 );
> > VLC_Destroy( 0 );
> > 
> > But here is a problem !!! The static variable !!!
> > 
> > static libvlc_t libvlc;
> > static vlc_t *  p_static_vlc;
> > 
> > Igor
> > 
> > > There is no truly generic way to do this. Some streams vlc can play may even
> > > last indeffinitly. The best thing for you is probably to have a look at the
> > > input_OffsetToTime function.
> > > 
> > > Sigmund
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:09:39PM +0200, Igor Andruszkiewicz wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > >   How can I get the total time of stream without playing it ?? (I can 
> > > > do it by input_Tell() but stream should be open).  Has the VLC function
> > > > like VLC_GetTotalTime(int i_object, const char * file) ???
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for help:)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Igor
> > > > 
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