[MPlayer-dev-eng] Request from Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics of Moscow and Russian Foundation for Support of Fundamental Physics

[Luca Barbato]

Dion Rasmussen wrote:
> This technology does already exist!

Yes but not what you are proposing.

> Simply host your video lectures in Xiph and/or DivX via Apache, and clients
> with Windows Mediaplayer, Mplayer, VLC player, etc. will be able to watch
> and seek instantly over the internet...

No, doesn't work*

* well works with the granularity of about 1s best case and with an 
interesting latency..

You may try feng+mplayer-libnemesi and enjoy the fact seeks to the point 
you asked in an instant (given a round trip time more than local stored 
file)

live.polito.it if you are curious.

We provide also server side composition using a sort of editlist, the 
edited resource is still seekable.

lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero