[vlc] Re: The Navigation Slider

[Etienne Bernard]

Le Mardi 24 Mai 2005 11:27, vous avez écrit :
> > If I recall correctly, the size information on an avi file is located at
> > the end of the file, but then why not perform a range HTTP request to
> > fetch it ?
>
> There is a reason, and it is a bit influct. vlc's avi reader has two modes:
> one when seeking is allowed, the other when seeking is not allowed. When
> seeking is allowed the avi reader seeks a lot. and using the vlc http
> reader seeking is very slow (cause it closes the connection and opens a new
> connection with the appropriate range request). This causes horrible
> performance when playing avi over http with the seeking reader. Therefore
> some time ago there were a desition to use the non-seeking reader for avi
> over http. For obvious reasons the seek bar cannot be shown when using the
> non-seeking avi reader.
>
> Note that for some other file types, the slider bar is shown over http,
>
Thanks for the explanation!

If I understand correctly, the solution here would be to have a third avi 
reader that only seeks to get meta information about the stream. Well, maybe 
one day I'll have a look at the code... ;-)

Anyway, can you tell me what file types support the slide bar over http? I 
need to know if it's worth transcoding my files, or if I should focus on a 
more usable http interface.
-- 
Etienne BERNARD <eb at pltplp.net>

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