[gst-devel] Help on souphttpsrc

[snvd1]

I find that for the mp4 stream I use, qtdemux is selected.  qtdemux doesn't
seek in push mode, but souphttpsrc is a pushsrc. Is there a solution for
this if I really want to do seeking on mp4 streams.

Thanks for your help,
snv



snvd1 wrote:
> 
> Hi Arnout, thanks for help.
> 
> I did change seeking by bytes, now the seeking is successful, but playing
> after that freezes. The URL is too long, so I did put in my original post,
> I tested it with wget as you adviced, len is reported, here is the URL:
> 
> http://vp.video.google.com:80/videodownload?version=0&secureurl=pwAAALxRpszUgTK_K_xaZ04iy5twIwiMBWR6G-P45DX_bflgErWPVfqlFRpAIRXPH0_f_S-vjr5fsjelV_b5a60KGO9-J5oM9waHrXbIp9TGcWil_918u10kdE07KD02uypssqtNkGBYhLcEBNsiUOVTSQesba0hY6i9lc5MslYTZmYH-KQCUNwMPL-Atkb15uIOeyUgx6uFXC-CGZLBbGzc-v99UGEyk_rCk0JSgNwzOdmX&sigh=5MvtdS0Pg_tizyUqpTRfwhK0Smk&begin=0&len=219000&docid=-3666353226986284383&client=655722610335
> 
> You and Tim both mentioned demuxer, I use decodebin, my pipeline looks
> like:
> 
> souphttpsrc  ! decodebin name=decoder decoder. ! queue ! audioconvert !
> audioresample ! osssink decoder. ! videoscale ! ffmpegcolorspace !
> xvimagesink
> 
> Do you see any problem in this pipeline?
> 
> Thanks so much for your help
> snv
> 
> 
> 
> Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>> 
>> 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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