[DVDnav-discuss] [PATCH] Guarantee forward seek attempt moves position forward

[Erik Hovland]

>>>>>>>> Ugh! That patch "worked" but was wrong.  It was comparing an offset into
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> title to raw sector numbers.  Here's a correction.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just a follow up to let you know that this patch is in my tree
>>>>>>> currently. If you make any modifications, please feel free to
>>>>>>> update this thread w/ a new patch.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.  I've done quite a bit of testing with this version and a "bad"
>>>>>> disc I created with a dry-erase marker.  It's performing solidly.  Also
>>>>>> got it into the hands of one of our users that had a few problem discs
>>>>>> and it worked well for him.
>>>>> Ping Nico. Could you approve/reject this?
>>>> Ping2.
>>> Ping3. Anyone?
>> It is still in my tree. If John could address Reimar's last qualms:
>> | Is a whole lot simpler but still feels suboptimal.
>> | I also don't know if handling the cell change is quite right here or
>> | if it wouldn't belong into dvdnav_scan_admap...
>>
>> But I think that we could probably submit the patch w/out addressing
>> these last issues.
>>
>> E
>>
> I thought I had. I incorporated his suggestions and responded to the issue about admap.
> From my previous emal on this patch:
>
> "dvdnav_scan_admap didn't look like the right place for handling the cell
> boundary because it currently doesn't touch the cell information at
> all.  In order to handle the boundary, it would have to replicate a lot
> of code that is already in dvdnav_sector_search."
>
> I didn't get further feedback.

Yes, I remember that it went pretty quiet in this thread.
So I still think we should push this patch (and I will do it
later if someone doesn't beat me to it).

E

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