[mythtv] [patch] Improved seek support for WMA in MythMusic

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 09 January 2004 05:40 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> I am looking into that.  Simply clearing the data structure isn't good
> enough because the seek_frame does a read_packet which expects that there
> be some data in those structures.  The major issue is that this data is
> specific to each format.  Tweaking it for the ASF struct doesn't do any
> good for reusing this for other codecs.  While the open/close method might
> be "nasty", it works, and works rather well without a performance problem
> that I could see.

Well, it wouldn't work for streams, and I imagine it's reading through the 
entire file from the beginning to get to the desired portion whenever you 
seek, instead of doing that once.  But...

> Ultimately, what I really should do is implement the asf_read_seek method
> in libavformat which should address all these issues.  Let me loot into
> that. Disregard this diff then.

Allright, that's a much better way to handle it =)

Isaac