[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 619396] New: gstreamer does not seek http streams of Ogg Vorbis and Flac audio files.

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619396
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | unspecified

           Summary: gstreamer does not seek http streams of Ogg Vorbis and
                    Flac audio files.
    Classification: Desktop
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gstreamer (core)
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: execrable at gmail.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
      GNOME target: ---
     GNOME version: ---


The media players with gstreamer backends that can play http streams (Totem and
Exaile are the ones I'm testing) can seek an http stream of an mp3 file, but
not ogg or flac files.

I am testing this on Ubuntu 10.04, with the gstreamer packages from the ubuntu
repos (0.10.28).  Totem version 2.30.1, and exaile from the development repo.


The easiest way to test this is to launch a simple http server in a directory
with .ogg/.flac/.mp3 files:

> python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Then try to open location http://localhost:8080/<file> in Totem and try to
seek.

The simple http server doesn't support the RANGE header so it can't seek (you
see an exception), but it doesn't recieve seek requests for .ogg or .flac
files, only for .mp3 files.


To test actual streaming, I used the spydaap python DAAP server
launchpad.net/spydaap (bzr branch lp:spydaap)

You can use either Rhythmbox or Exaile to connect to the daap server and check
the properties of a Track to get the URL, and then open that URL in any player
that will play http streams.

Using this, I can seek in ogg/flac streams using VLC, but none of the gstreamer
players I've tried.

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