[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 578908] [fdsink] implement seeking on seekable fds

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------- Comment #4 from Wim Taymans  2009-04-20 21:19 UTC -------
> I don't know why fdsink is not supposed to be used with seekable file 
> descriptors.
> Can you explain it ?

Because the author of the element did not implement this feature. Possibly
because the use case was to only use fdsink on sockets or pipes, not on
seekable files. Possibly because filesink existed for dealing with files...


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