[gst-devel] seek did not work!!

[Jim Liu]

Hello,Mike

> There are a number of special cases where it is possible. Some formats
> allow it, most don't.

Could you like to tell me what kind of format that is allowed to seek 
through http transport?
I want to test it !

Thank you !
Best regards !

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Smith" <msmith at fluendo.com>
To: "Jim Liu" <liu336 at oki.com>
Cc: <gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [gst-devel] seek did not work!!


> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:20 +0800, Jim Liu wrote:
>> Hello,everybody!
>>
>> I use element `playbin` to playback .
>>
>> 1. When uri=file:// ,playback ok, seek to some position ok !
>> 2. When uri=http://,playback ok,but can not seek to some position,it 
>> seemed
>> that API function `gst_element_seek`  did not work!
>
> Seeking over HTTP is not, in general, possible.
>
> There are a number of special cases where it is possible. Some formats
> allow it, most don't.
>
> Mike
>