[gst-devel] setting read location of filesrc element

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

Quoting Jens Persson <xerxes2 at gmail.com>:

> hi michelle
> i don't think you need eriks mail adress to learn more about filesrc,
> all you need is gst-inspect :D
>
> € gst-inspect-0.10 filesrc
>
> greets jens

GStreamer filesource has no offset property. Nobody had that se-case  
so far. Depends a bit on what you wan to do. One possible solution  
would be to have an element that skips the initial bytes and re-bases  
the byte-possition (for seeks and queries).

Stefan

>
> michelle Wagner wrote:
>> in the documentation it says
>> "filesrc -- read from an arbitrary point in a file"
>>
>> i have a movie inside another file that starts after some
>> number of bytes. the whole movie including it's header info
>> is offsetted into the file.
>>
>> does any one know how to set the initial offset of the filesrc element?
>>
>> thanks,
>> michelle wagner
>>
>>
>> ps.
>> author of filesrc is Erik Walthinsen,
>> my email to his email address <omega at cse.ogi.edu
>> <mailto:omega at cse.ogi.edu>>,
>> (from documentation) failed to go through.
>> any one know a more recent email i could contact him through?
>>
>>
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