[Bug 679708] playbin: read ahead files, better support for network shares and other slow inputs

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679708
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-base | unspecified

Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
                 CC|                            |t.i.m at zen.co.uk
          Component|don't know                  |gst-plugins-base
            Summary|read ahead files while      |playbin: read ahead files,
                   |playing                     |better support for network
                   |                            |shares and other slow
                   |                            |inputs
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #2 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> 2012-07-12 08:58:03 UTC ---
> It seems to me (though I might be wrong) that Totem fetches only when its read
> buffer is exhausted. To play files reliably, Totem should instead continuously
> fill the buffer, trying to always keep it at a reasonable size.

One would need to investigate a specific case here, but that's not really how
it should be working. There should also be some buffering in the lower layers.
I can confirm that the behaviour with network shares in pull mode is not ideal
though, I think it's just a case of not enough buffering then.

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