[gst-devel] Hi, question about seek on HTTP wav stream over either neonhttpsrc or gnomevfssrc.

[Donny Viszneki]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bob Forsman <thoth at purplefrog.com> wrote:
> In 44acbb800902151920n7611b099mba8d011b1799215 at mail.gmail.com, Donny Viszneki <donny.viszneki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know enough about gstreamer to diagnose your problem, but as
>> you say that you want to stream WAV format media over HTTP with the
>> expectation of *seeking* in that media, I thought I should point out
>> that that sounds a little silly. What reason do you want to do this?
>> Is there a reason you cannot use another format (WAV is completely
>> uncompressed PCM audio sample data, it is enormous and not efficient
>> for most applications.)
>
>  Not all HTTP servers are on the other side of the internet.  More and
> more of them will be inside your house in the future.
>
>  Not all HTTP servers are apache.  More and more they will be embedded
> in your cell phone and your CD player and your DVD jukebox and your car
> stereo and your NAS appliance under the table in the spare bedroom.

Not untrue Bob! I guess it was my reaction to think this was
ridiculous not because of a bandwidth bottleneck, but because I've
often had to deal with excessively long WAV audio files in the past
(which ran several gigabytes) and at some point you do run out of
virtual memory ;)

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