Re: [xine-devel] Re: Cue points

[Miguel F. <mi...@ce...>]

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:10, Darwin O'Connor wrote:
> What this feature is supposed to do is send an event when the playback 
> reaches certain positions in the file. While this can also be done by 
> calling get position regularly using callback events are more precise, 
> less CPU intensive and are easier to program then regularly calling "get 
> position" and waiting for the position to arrive.


Why don't you create a thread that checks position regularly and execute
your callback function? you should at least try it, because i don't
thing you need that much precision for time display or progress bar.
calling get position, let's say, every tenth of second uses _very_
little cpu time. 

It's a much easier solution and you don't have to convince xine
developers (you haven't convinced me yet ;-)

> If you have a game or some kind of 
> flash animation and you want things to happen at certain points in a 
> movie, it could also be used for that.

afaik xine is neither a game or flash player... 


regards,

Miguel