[MPlayer-dev-eng] Bug in http streaming (found by Johannes Feigl)

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Wed Dec 19 10:37:46 CET 2001


Hi,

> No that's not because of http 1.0.
> Ethereal see that the file is sent by the server.
> The reason is because of the mime-type.
> The mime-type is set to application/octet-stream.
> I already set the mime type plain/text to playback
> asf, but that not really a good solution.
> I will try to see that if a direct http streaming with unknow
> mime type will work. The problem is seeking back, I don't
> know if the new cache system can handle that for me.
> I will need to try that.

It can.
by default, the half of cache buffer is used for seek-back, other half for
read-ahead.

just play a file from network and try to seek back with arrows.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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