[MPlayer-users] ogg causes endless loop

[gabor]

On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 04:12, Alban Bedel wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi gabor,
> 
> on 22 Apr 2002 01:55:14 -0400 you wrote:
> 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 
> > > > 
> > > I added seeking but the init seems long even with little files.I don't have any big ogg 
> > > so I don't know how many time it take for a really big file. Make a samples with the 
> > > first Meg of the file. If it does play you just have to wait. If it doesn't send a bugreport
> > > and upload the sample.
> > > 	Albeu
> > 
> > for a 700Mb movie the init takes 30secs on an 1ghz athlon....
> > 
> > i don't really know how's the seeking implemented, but in windows i can
> > play-and-seek in ogg files instantly, so there must be a way to doit
> > without init ( i think you're generating some kind of index, the same
> > way as for avi files )..
> Yes, I build an index and it seems way too long. I must look at it and/or use an 
> other way. The advantage of this solution is that you can seek quickly to any
> point in the movie. You know the drawbacks.

yes, but the win implementation of ogg video allows instant seeking
without any (noticable) preprocessing.. perharps yoi should look at that
code... but i don't know how much of the seeking is done by directshow
and how much by the ogg implementation.


bye,gabor

> > 
> > of course even this kind of indexing is better than nothing, but then at
> > least could you add an option to start a movie without seeking, but
> > instantly?
> Use a non-seekable source like this : cat your_file | mplayer -
> 	Albeu
> 
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