[PATCH] Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] avformat/av_seek_frame_binary with growing file

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Friday 10 June 2005 21:59, Kenneth Aafl?y wrote:
> torsdag 9. juni 2005, 01:59, skrev Kenneth Aafl?y:
> > I'm implementing a server/client which makes use of libavformat/codec to
> > handle reading and decoding through an abstraction layer. I'm reading
> > files through the http protocol handling implemented in this abstraction
> > layer, from files that may or may not be currently recording. I've chosen
> > not to set the is_streamed flag of urlcontext, since that would limit my
> > options when it comes to seeking. The http protocol implementation
> > prefers http/1.1 partial content request/responses, so seeking is
> > relativly easy to implement. However, in av_seek_frame_binary (which is
> > used with mpeg ts formats) there is a for (;;) loop which does not care
> > much for a file that is currently growing in size :
>
> [...]
>
> > If I put a 'if (tmp_pos > filesize) break;' after 'int64_t tmp_pos =
> > ....' my seeks with growing files will happily succeed.
>
> No comments on this, so here is the patch.

mixes statements and declarations -> wont compile with gcc 2.95 so cant be 
accepted

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-- 
Michael