seeking in fragmented mp4 files

[Michael Gruner]

Hi,

I faced this once as well. I ended up adding seeking support on 
multifilesink. I'm attaching the patch I used, hope it saves you some work.

Michael

P.S. The patch is for the 0.10.31 version


On 04/10/2014 09:55 AM, Andoni Morales wrote:
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> 2014-04-09 12:47 GMT+02:00 Lajos Okos <lajos.okos at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lajos.okos at gmail.com>>:
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>     Hi,
>
>     I'm testing fragmented MP4 files with the playbin pipeline. The
>     files play fine unless I want to seek in them. Seeking doesn't
>     work. The reason seems to be the qtdemux that is forwarding the
>     seek events upstream if the mp4 file is fragmented. I don't need
>     any of the smooth streaming functionality, I have the audio and
>     the video tracks in a single mp4 file and I don't want to change
>     bitrate. The reason I'm using fragmented mp4 is that the files are
>     in record while playback should start.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If you don't plan to generate a manifest or a dash media 
> representation, you can use a different container, like matroska 
> without indexes, that would generate a playable and seekable stream 
> while it's being recorded.
>
> Cheers,
> Andoni
>
>
>     Is there a way to catch and handle the forwarded seek events from
>     qtdemux in the application? What should the seek handle do?
>
>     Should I construct a different pipeline with opening some type of
>     a manifest file rather than the media file itself? How should the
>     manifest file look like in this simple case?
>
>     Hope that someone solved this issue before!
>
>     Thanks for your help in advance!
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>     Lajos
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