Re: [xine-devel] pause function

[Siggi L. <lan...@fa...>]

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Guenter Bartsch wrote:

> [...constant offset after pause is ugly...]
> very good point.
> 
> The reason why it's in there is because xine pre-buffer's some amount of
> data of the input stream, so when the user presses "pause" and I ask the
> input plugin where it's position within the stream is, I get some point in
> the future, because there is _some_ data buffered by the demuxer. I
> experimented quite a bit with this constant and it worked OK.

Can't we use somithing less heuristic? I guess, remembering the current
pts value in the stream would be near optimum. Shouldn't the metronome
know, what the current pts time _exactly_ is?
Are we able to seek to a particular pts in a given stream?

> [...]
> But all that didn't work anyway (frames can become just too big), so I'll
> clean that up as soon as I've finished the work on the Xshm video output
> driver.

Oh ohhh, looks like AVI demultiplexing is able to break quite a few
things...

Good night,
	
	Siggi