[MPlayer-users] Mplayer cannot seek with makemkv streams

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 08:17:57PM +0000, Dom H wrote:
> Output when attempting to seek
> 
> http://pastebin.com/x40F0r6j

 0 - CONTENT-LENGTH: 15882326856
 1 - CONTENT-TYPE: video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts
 2 - DATE: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:13:12 GMT
 3 - LAST-MODIFIED: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:09:22 GMT
 4 - SERVER: MakeMKV v1.6.3 linux(x64-release), UPnP/1.0, Portable SDK for UPnP devices/1.6.6
 5 - X-User-Agent: redsonic

The server is broken, it is is claiming it does not support
downloading arbitrary ranges (no Accept-Ranges header) and
thus seeking just is not possible.
Any program that can do seeking with this will be horribly
broken when trying to use it with a web-server that really
does not support ranges.
There is some tricks like just trying to send a ranges header
anyway and see if the server accepts it, but I somewhat feel
that asking for a webserver implementation to be at least
half-correct is not asking too much (though the custom YouTube
web-server does the same crap).
I applied a workaround with r32785, you should now get a warning
about using a broken webserver, please test if it works I neither
have, use, nor want to use MakeMKV.