[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] GNOME-VFS layer

[Jan Knutar]

On Monday 25 October 2004 14:30, Dave Lambley wrote:

> Seeking can be nasty. Although GNOME-VFS does provide functions to do
> seeking, it doesn't work for the ssh:// protocol. I've written an
> unpleasant work around that involves dumping data and re-opening the
> file when necessary.

That sounds even more painful than seek over HTTP & FTP in current mplayer,
which reopens the connection and "resumes" the file at the requested seek point.