baseparse converting seek event from format BYTES to TIME

[Eric Trousset]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gstreamer-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:gstreamer-
> devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Tim Müller
> Sent: mercredi 29 janvier 2014 01:15
> To: gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: baseparse converting seek event from format BYTES to TIME
> 
> On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 15:56 +0100, Eric Trousset wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> > I've been trying to understand what is going going on with my seeking.
> > When doing it on Mpeg PS file, the seek event is converted from time
> > to byte, and I receive it ok in my source element. But for mpegts
> > file, with mpeg2 vid and ac3 audio, it looks like the event is
> > converted from time to byte and from byte to time again, and never
> > reach my source element.
> 
> Well, it's only parts of the log. But the code in baseparse looks fine to me - it
> will try to send the seek event as-is upstream first, and only if that wasn't
> handled it will fall back to its own time->byte conversion.
> 
> If there's an mpeg-ps file, the demuxer should handle the seek (or the
> source). You need to check why that doesn't happen as expected.

Can you advise me on which element to activate logs to see what is going on with the seek event.

> 
> In your log it looks like the duration query fails - this is not a good sign
> generally - how do you expect an app to seek if you don't even provide it
> with a seek range / duration estimate?

My source element should be able to respond to query duration in byte format, but not sure the query got to it

> 
>  Cheers
>   -Tim
> 
> --
> Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com
> 
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