Thanks for the help guys, if i get it to work fine ill post here. best regards, katcipis <div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/30 Sebastian Dröge <<a href="mailto:sebastian.droege@collabora.co.uk">sebastian.droege@collabora.co.uk</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 06:10 +0400 schrieb LRN: <div class="im">> Tiago Katcipis wrote: > > I have a multimedia server that provides live playing of stored files, i > > receive a uri (that can be a SSH, FTP or HTTP), opens it, decode and send it > > back to the client. > > > > Everything works fine, im using gnomevfs to open the uri, the problem starts > > when i start to seek through the stream, it seens that gnomevfssrc does not > > handle seeking. Im aware of the existence of a giosrc element too, but until > > now i just have tried to work with gnomevfssrc. > > > > i already read something about that but it was old posts (saying that isnt > > possible), so i wanted to be sure, is giosrc ou gnomevfssrc capable of doing > > seeking on a http/ssh/ftp stream? I didnt find anything on the documentation > > and i cant be sure if its not working because im doing something wrong or if > > it wont work simply because it dont work. > > > > best regards, > > Katcipis > > > Everything boils down to this little macro: > #define GST_GIO_STREAM_IS_SEEKABLE(stream) (G_IS_SEEKABLE (stream) && > g_seekable_can_seek (G_SEEKABLE (stream))) > > Which uses this little function: > <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/stable/GSeekable.html#g-seekable-can-seek" target="_blank">http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/stable/GSeekable.html#g-seekable-can-seek</a> > > Which checks G_IS_SEEKABLE() and returns can_seek property of the > G_SEEKABLE_GET_IFACE > So, if you want to know whether you can seek a particular GIOSTREAM or > not, get its sources and grep for "->can_seek". </div>That and note that giosrc isn't automatically used for HTTP because it doesn't support icecast, etc. Better use souphttpsrc, which can seek if the server supports it. </blockquote></div> -- "it might be a profitable thing to learn Java, but it has no intellectual value whatsoever" Alexander Stepanov