[gst-devel] Help on souphttpsrc

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On Tuesday 16 June 2009 01:39:52 snvd1 wrote:
> I'm creating a video player that can stream video from the internet, and
> performs seeking on the stream. Somebody indicates souphttpsrc is the
> solution but it doesn't work for me, my code looks like the beloow, when I
> call  gst_element_seek_simple(pipeline, GST_FORMAT_TIME,
> GST_SEEK_FLAG_FLUSH, 5*GST_SECOND), it always fails, please please help.

 souphttpsrc only supports seeking in bytes, not in time, so unless there is 
some element in the pipeline (a demuxer, most likely) that knows how to 
convert the time to bytes, soup httpsrc won't help.  How is the stream muxed?

 Also, as Tim indicated, the server must support seeking.  A quick way to test 
this is to wget the URL and see if the size is reported before it starts 
downloading.  If it isn't, seeking almost certainly doesn't work.


>    g_object_set(src, "location", "http://", NULL);

 I do hope there is some real URL here, because this obviously won't work...

 Regards,
 Arnout
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