[gst-devel] Seek howto ?

[laurent belmonte]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 19:50 +0200, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 23:04, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > I'm experimenting with gstreamer and variousaudio file formats. I have
> > problems with seeking. The tutorial says nothing about it, so I tried to use
> > the code in gst-plugins-0.8.1/examples/seeking. It works, but I cannot find
> > a generic way to seek in any file. The example program builds a "seekable"
> > list for each supported format. How can I know what is the element(s) I have
> > to send the seek event to ?  Why the event has to be sent to the pads of
> > some elements instead of the element itself ?
> 
> For a pipeline filesrc ! spider ! audiosink, do:
> 
> static gboolean
> seek (guint64 ns)
> {
>   GstEvent *event;
>   GstElement *audiosink = ..;
> 
>   event = gst_event_new_seek (GST_SEEK_METHOD_SET | GST_FORMAT_TIME,
>       ns);
>   return gst_element_send_event (audiosink, event);  
> }
> 
can we seek after a filesrc eos ? (for me, it doesn't work)
> And yes, the application development manual needs work... ;).
> 
> Ronald
> 
> 
> 
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