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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:16:53PM +1000, Michael Smith wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 04:35, Hirendra Hindocha wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have an icecast2 server streaming some mp3 files and am using > > winamp to listen to the stream, however I couldn't figure out if > > there is a way to seek or rewind. Is there a way to seek/fast > >

...g server, so it... streams. > >> > > > > Good point. I wonder how the other servers (Real Server ,Quicktime etc) do it. > > Any inputs on any other streaming servers that lets a client > > seek/fast forward /rewind ? > > They probably do it client side by buffring the stream. No, they do it using RTSP methods, which inherantly contain the correct "time" for the frame. By requesting a specific "time", you get a the frames that correspong, thus you can seek without relying on client side buffering. Note that not all QuickTime or RealMedi...

...bit). This is an inherent effect of the racy design of libXv (and possibly the Xv protocol itself). When using XvShmPutImage(), there is no notifier that the server has had time to process the image. If it takes to long, your player will start overwriting the buffer with the next frame. With double buffring players (like mplayer), this will in most cases have the effect of frames getting displayed in the wrong order. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug.