[MPlayer-users] youtube hq mp4 url seek

[Justin Smith]

Thanks - will try it out. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu [mailto:mplayer-users-
> bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Reimar Döffinger
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:55 PM
> To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] youtube hq mp4 url seek
> 
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:41:48PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:31:19PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:03:58PM -0800, Justin Smith wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am using mplayer to play youtube videos on linux as the flash
> > > > performance is really really bad on Linux. One thing I miss is the
> > > > seeking feature for YouTube. I use mplayer to play hq/mp4 videos
> > > > through the script listed here:
> > > > http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=MPlayer_youtube_script
> > > >
> > > > But when I try to seek, it gives me audio codec errors. I have
> > > > tried seeking in VLC and it seems to be able to do that, but I
> > > > prefer mplayer and would like to see if anybody on the mailing
> > > > list has a solution for this or if we can borrow the patch from
> > > > VLC that fixed this issue ...
> > >
> > > I fear there are some bugs in MPlayer's http implementation.
> >
> > Actually, the "bug" is on the youtube side.
> > The server does not return a Accept-Ranges ranges header, which to my
> > understanding means the server does not support seeking.
> > Since thus MPlayer tries to do without seeking, things work really
> > badly (and slowly).
> 
> Luckily youtube has a very special server name ("gvs 1.0"), so now MPlayer
> just assumes that seeking is possible when it encounters that.
> So all you should have to do is update to latest SVN.
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