[MPlayer-users] seek or "set_property time_pos" with URL

[Reyada Wolak]

I got it working with '-nocache' but how can i get it right without it.
nocache is causing some *echoes* at the beginning.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Reyada Wolak <reyada.wolak at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm not sure about the behavior of 'seek' when the file is streamed from
> the internet and not locally. it seems that it is only capable of doing so
> if the period (in sec) is within the cache i.e. it cannot seek to any point
> in the file unless it is played at least once. is it correct? in some
> players e.g. RealPlayer you can stream to any point from the URL and the
> playing will start immediately without the need to download the whole file
> locally at the beginning.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Reyada Wolak <reyada.wolak at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I tried this in Linux as well. the same issue, set_property time_pos OR
>> seek after loadfile directly will not work. be aware that I'm using slave
>> mode from my Java rapper:
>> loadfile <http URL> 0 \n seek <sec> 2          (in one command)
>>
>> It only happens with HTTP URL. With local files, it is working fine.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Reyada Wolak <reyada.wolak at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have notice that seek or "set_property time_pos" is not working with
>>> HTTP URL if it comes after loadfile directly.
>>>
>>> loadfile <http URL> 0
>>> seek <sec> 2
>>> OR set_property time_pos <sec>
>>>
>>> it works fine after the clip start playing but not if you want to start
>>> load at a specifc position.
>>>
>>> loadfile from local file and then seek works fine as well:
>>>
>>> loadfile file 0
>>> seek <sec> 2
>>>
>>> it is only not working with URL. I'm using r29280-4.5.0 on Win32 mingw32
>>>
>>
>>
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