Forward,Backward,FPS... (1 Viewer)

[JimmyBoy]

This is something I meant to keep my eye on, but ive lost track now.

Is it possible yet to read the metadata from the streams yet ? reading "Test: FLVSplitter special build for HTTP Streams" it seems as though something has been added to the LAV Filter's ?

I am overly paranoid about installing new codecs, as I have my setup working perfectly with regards to playing all media, so really would rather not mess about with it, and not install a codec pack. Is there a paticular codec / patch / whatever which allows me to skip forward/backward, and also see the current time/total time of the media?

Oh, I just remembered, I originally asked about this along time ago and I think it is how I originally ended up at the "Test: FLVSplitter special build for HTTP Streams" thread - will this grap any FPS data from the stream to pass to the Automatic Refresh Rate changer, to allow my display to change Hz to match the FPS (like TV-Series and Moving Pictures does)

Thanks for all your help.

 

[offbyone]

Reading Metadata from Stream alone will not be enough to allow skipping in streams from webservers. The file is not on you local hdd, so accessing it is a lot different and slower! to achieve this every filter in the graph must behave nicely (e.g. not do calls like skip to end in order to find the file length). Also we need a source filter that knows how to access data from a server not just from byte 0 to the end but also when the http web server supports ranges, to translate a playback position to the correct range. Currently we are writing such source filter - and it will be in the next release.

The next release of OnlineVideos will also optionally install LAV filters which we found to play best so far for our purposes. This is not a codec pack but just a set of 3 filters (splitter, audio, video) that handle the most common formats.

Dynamic Refresh rate changes are currently (MP 1.2.1) not possible with webstreams. There are patches to the core that enable this, but not yet finished.

 

[JimmyBoy]

Thank you for the detailed answer