<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>The binary worked great under Windows-- I was able to load test an MPEG1 (non-ES) video and click to the middle of the video without a problem. I built the source-code under Linux on both a remote server and Ubuntu under a local VM, and the same video will load, but will:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1) NOT report it's duration properly.</div><div>2) NOT allow the user to jump ahead.</div><div><br></div><div>I am using VLC as the client. Does anyone have any advice?</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>I downloaded the file that you reported<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://host1.aws.randomingenuity.com/mailinglist/live/test-mpeg.mpg">http://host1.aws.randomingenuity.com/mailinglist/live/test-mpeg.mpg</a><br><div>and tried running it with the "LIVE555 Media Server" on FreeBSD (I haven't had a chance to try Linux yet). It correctly reported the duration (21.368 seconds), and I was able to seek backwards and forwards through the stream using VLC.</div><div><br></div><div>Nonetheless, 'trick play' operations on MPEG Program Stream files (like this) don't work as well as they do on (indexed) Transport Stream files - so if you have a choice of file types, then Transport Stream files are better.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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