playbin2, gst_element_seek and http.

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On 19 May 2012 09:58, Kyrylo V Polezhaiev <polezhaiev at ukr.net> wrote:
> Hello, I am using the following code in my browser plugin to set position in video:
>
> void OVIMediaPlayer::set_position(float percents)
> {
>     gint64 position, length;
>     GstFormat format = GST_FORMAT_TIME;
>     gst_element_query_duration (pipeline, &format, &length);
>     position = static_cast<gint64>(length * (percents * 0.01));
>     GstState state;
>     gst_element_get_state(pipeline, &state, NULL, GST_CLOCK_TIME_NONE);
>     gst_element_set_state(pipeline, GST_STATE_PAUSED);
>     gst_element_seek(bin, 1.0, format, GST_SEEK_FLAG_FLUSH, GST_SEEK_TYPE_SET, position, GST_SEEK_TYPE_NONE, GST_CLOCK_TIME_NONE);
>     gst_element_set_state(pipeline, state);
>     return;
> }
>
> My pipeline contains playbin2 with directdraw video sink and plays video from http server. Server supports HTTP Range Headers. My function gets percents argument in range [0; 100] to set position of video. But after each call video begins from begging.
>

May I ask why you are changing the state to paused and then setting it
back again?
The rest looks OK, so I'm puzzled by this.