[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] http: add hack to make streams served by MediaGateway not seekable

[wm4]

These streams are reported as seekable, but all tests show they are not,
and the server merely pretends the streams are seekable. The server
responds with:

    content-range: bytes 0-1999999999/2000000000

Range requests seem to be correctly answered, but the actual data
returned at the same offset is different. Assume this is a bug in the
server software. The server identifies itself as:

    Server: MediaGateway 3.5.2-001

Add a hack that checks the server name, and disables seeking in this
case.

Test URL: http://8283.live.streamtheworld.com:80/CBC_R1_VCR_H_SC
---
I think this is terrible, but at least it prevents long delay caused
by the AAC demuxer trying to seek towards the end of the stream for
reading the id3 tag (see test url).

Also, maybe someone could verify that the server indeed only pretends
to support seeking, and that it doesn't actually work?
---
 libavformat/http.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavformat/http.c b/libavformat/http.c
index c5b5c53..65d7d134 100644
--- a/libavformat/http.c
+++ b/libavformat/http.c
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ typedef struct {
     uint8_t *post_data;
     int post_datalen;
     int is_akamai;
+    int is_mediagateway;
     char *mime_type;
     char *cookies;          ///< holds newline (\n) delimited Set-Cookie header field values (without the "Set-Cookie: " field name)
     int icy;
@@ -386,8 +387,12 @@ static int process_line(URLContext *h, char *line, int line_count,
         } else if (!av_strcasecmp (tag, "Connection")) {
             if (!strcmp(p, "close"))
                 s->willclose = 1;
-        } else if (!av_strcasecmp (tag, "Server") && !av_strcasecmp (p, "AkamaiGHost")) {
-            s->is_akamai = 1;
+        } else if (!av_strcasecmp (tag, "Server")) {
+            if (!av_strcasecmp (p, "AkamaiGHost")) {
+                s->is_akamai = 1;
+            } else if (!av_strncasecmp (p, "MediaGateway", 12)) {
+                s->is_mediagateway = 1;
+            }
         } else if (!av_strcasecmp (tag, "Content-Type")) {
             av_free(s->mime_type); s->mime_type = av_strdup(p);
         } else if (!av_strcasecmp (tag, "Set-Cookie")) {
@@ -570,6 +575,9 @@ static int http_read_header(URLContext *h, int *new_location)
         s->line_count++;
     }
 
+    if (s->seekable == -1 && s->is_mediagateway && s->filesize == 2000000000)
+        h->is_streamed = 1; /* we can in fact _not_ seek */
+
     return err;
 }
 
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