[FFmpeg-devel] New seeking API

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:36:20PM +0100, Ivan Schreter wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> as I see, you started writing new seeking functions. Currently, only API 
> seems to be defined in SVN. Do you already have something ready in the 
> sense of implementation, which you could share?

no
i was planing to write a wraper so the old API could be droped ASAP and
the read_seek() would be called when a format had no new read_seek2()


> 
> I suppose you want to create two versions of the new seeking function: 
> one for streams having an index (e.g., AVI) and one for streams without 
> index (e.g., MPEG-TS), similar to what is done currently in old seeking 

yes, likely ...


> API. As I'm interested in getting MPEG-TS seeking to work correctly, I 
> could look at the second case (if the first one is already addressed).
> 

> BTW, I take it this new API will implicitly assume 
> "AVSEEK_FLAG_BACKWARD", since I cannot really imagine a reason why 
> someone would like to get a key frame _after_ the given timestamp/position.

AVSEEK_FLAG_BACKWARD wont be used in the new API, the 3 timestamps allow
the user much finer control over things ...

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