[Live-devel] Seeking

[Ross Finlayson]

>This relates to:
>https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2806
>
>Is it true that any seek action needs to be preceded with a PAUSE ?
>Reading the RFC, i kinda deduce the same information as the user is 
>stating, but to be honest, I've never seen a server that supports 
>queue'd PLAY requests, and they all seem to not mind the "missing" 
>PAUSE of VLC. (Although i have to see that few people will ever use 
>this functionality)
>
>What is your interpretation of the standard Ross ?

I don't see anything in the spec that suggests that that a seek 
(i.e., a "PLAY" with a Range: start time) needs to be preceded by a 
"PAUSE".  Our RTSP server implementation certainly does not require 
this, and I don't know of any other implementation that does either.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/