Thanks - will try it out. > -----Original Message----- > From: mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu [mailto:mplayer-users- > bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Reimar D?ffinger > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:55 PM > To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports > Subject: Re: youtube hq mp4 url seek > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:41:48PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:31:19PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:03:58PM -0800, Justin Smith wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I am using mplayer to play youtube videos on linux as the flash > > > > performance is really really bad on Linux. One thing I miss is the > > > > seeking feature for YouTube. I use mplayer to play hq/mp4 videos > > > > through the script listed here: > > > > http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=MPlayer_youtube_script > > > > > > > > But when I try to seek, it gives me audio codec errors. I have > > > > tried seeking in VLC and it seems to be able to do that, but I > > > > prefer mplayer and would like to see if anybody on the mailing > > > > list has a solution for this or if we can borrow the patch from > > > > VLC that fixed this issue ... > > > > > > I fear there are some bugs in MPlayer's http implementation. > > > > Actually, the "bug" is on the youtube side. > > The server does not return a Accept-Ranges ranges header, which to my > > understanding means the server does not support seeking. > > Since thus MPlayer tries to do without seeking, things work really > > badly (and slowly). > > Luckily youtube has a very special server name ("gvs 1.0"), so now MPlayer > just assumes that seeking is possible when it encounters that. > So all you should have to do is update to latest SVN. > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
