Re: [xine-devel] Seeking difficulty

[Thibaut M. <thi...@gm...>]

On 10/3/05, Michael Roitzsch <mr...@us...> wrote:
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> > 2. there's 2 types of seeking: seeking based on (i forgot how it's
> > called; but it's something like frames)
>
> It's percentage seeking (i.e. seek to 50% of the stream, meaning 50%
> of the bytes in the raw data).

the demuxer is free to decide what 50% means. The prefered
signification is 50% of the total time, but it's not always possible.

> > and timeseeking. (I believe the time seeking is/was broken)
>
> The ability to time-seek accurately largely depends on the demuxer's
> capabilities and the cooperation with the input plugin.

The current behavior must be changed. Currently we always seek to the
keyframe before the  seekpoint, that's problematic if you want to seek
to (current time + 5 seconds) because we can seek backward if there is
no keyframe between now and the seekpoint. IMHO the direction of the
seek must be taken into account, and that's what other players do.

Thibaut