[Ffmpeg-devel] Ffplay: streaming in ogg and asf container bro ken

[Klaas-Pieter Vlieg]

> From: Ronald S. Bultje [mailto:rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net] 
> Sent: 18 February 2007 17:57
> 
> On Sun, 2007-02-18, Klaas-Pieter Vlieg wrote:
> > In http_open() h->is_streamed is set to 1, so that's 
> already covered.
> 
> And afterwards, it's overwritten (to zero, see below in 
> http.c) if the stream supports the GetRange HTTP method. The 
> indexing in ogg is only triggered if is_stream is zero, so it 
> has to be zero. Add a printf() at the end just before the 
> return in http_open_cnx() and also in the ogg demuxer 
> (ogg_get_length() in ogg2.c) if you don't believe me. :-).
> 
> > How can I avoid indexing in ogg for network streams?
> 
> By preventing it to be set to 0 (or well, that worked for 
> me). But really, that is a hack. Another variable 
> (is_network_stream or so) should be introduced that is always 
> set to 1 for network inputs (e.g.
> mms, http) and prevents indexing in ogg. It is never a good 
> idea to index network streams. The funny thing is that by 
> code, it doesn't seem like ogg indexing should take so long, 
> I should probably debug that code and see what's going on...
> 
Just add sleep(1); at line 99 in http.c
It solves the problem and doesn't break anything.
Ronald, please test and commit. Thx!

Klaas-Pieter Vlieg