gstreamer native avi demux: the http seek timing accuracy is not as accurate as hard disk seek

[Vlad Seryakov]

I also noticed some problems with http plugins when tried to perform Segment seeking, my guess was something with buffering/queuing, but i could not determine why queue plugin breaks segment handling.

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> By the way, ffmpeg and vlc can seek this stream at correct timing in
> case of http.

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:02 PM, bcxa sz <bcxa.sz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Developers,
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> I found the native gstreamer avi demux doesn't have the seek accuracy
> in case of http compared with in case of hard disk.
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> For example, I have one good avi file which have correct index file.
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> If seek to 10 seconds in case of hard disk, the native avi demux will
> seek to the correct timing (almost 10 seconds). But if seek to 10
> seconds in case of http, the native avi demux will seek to 5 seconds
> before. And it seemed the seek byte offset is not correct.
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> Can you let me know whether this is known issue or not?