#15443: Media Player continue from last position issues
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Reporter: smallstepforman | Owner: stippi
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
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Component: Applications/MediaPlayer | Version:
Keywords: MediaPlayer continue from last | R1/Development
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Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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Several issues with MediaPlayer file caching mechanism. It will attempt
to remember last played position, and when restarted it will attempt to
continue where from it's last position.
The first issue is when the file itself changes - eg, I'm working on a
video editor for Haiku and reusing the same out file, and testing the
created files with MediaPlayer (eg. test.mp4). MediaPlayer will typically
start from the last played frame (anticipating continuation), ie. only
play a single frame and terminate. Not ideal. If the previous played
time is near the end, Media Player should set seek time to zero (beginning
of file). Also, if the modification time is different, it should also set
seek time to zero.
The second issue was really interesting. I created a test.mp4 file with
both Audio and Video tracks. The next file I created was test.ogg with
only an audio track (so I now have 2 files, test.mp4 and test.ogg). When
starting MediaPlayer on the test.ogg file, it did something wonderful -
play the video from the test.mp4 file, and the audio from test.ogg.
Delightful to see (and surprising), but most definately wrong.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15443>
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