[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 10/18] avformat/hls: add support for byte-ranged segments

Clément Bœsch u at pkh.me
Tue Dec 31 07:30:57 CET 2013


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 05:13:03AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> 31.12.2013 05:05, Michael Niedermayer kirjoitti:
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:14:24PM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> >> Add support for EXT-X-BYTERANGE added in HLS protocol v4.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi>
> >> ---
> >>  libavformat/hls.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> [...]
> >> @@ -635,8 +671,22 @@ static int open_input(HLSContext *c, struct playlist *pls)
> >>      else
> >>        ret = AVERROR(ENOSYS);
> >>  
> >> +    /* Seek to the requested position. If this was a HTTP request,
> >> +     * the offset should already be there. */
> >> +    if (ret == 0) {
> >> +        int seekret = ffurl_seek(pls->input, seg->url_offset, SEEK_SET);
> >> +        if (seekret < 0) {
> >> +            av_log(pls->parent, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Unable to seek to offset %"PRId64" of HLS segment '%s'\n", seg->url_offset, seg->url);
> >> +            ret = seekret;
> >> +            ffurl_close(pls->input);
> >> +            pls->input = NULL;
> >> +        }
> >> +    }
> > 
> > maybe i misunderstand something but why do you need to seek if the
> > offset was already provided to the protocol ?
> 
> Well, in case the protocol is not HTTP. Of course that is indeed a bit
> far-fetched as it is "HTTP Live Streaming" ;)
> 
> This was useful for local testing without needing a HTTP server, though.
> I'm not too heavily against removing it, but it doesn't really hurt
> either so I kept it...
> 

Does that mean a remote server can make you play local files?

-- 
Clément B.
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