Can't skip forward or backward when streaming OGG files

[Nathan Dyer]

What it says on the tin :)

EDIT: skipping/seeking in ogg files stored locally works just fine, but it's entirely broken with ogg files on remote servers.

[Nathan Dyer (nathandyer)]

While working on finding a solution to this bug I realized that it can skip forward and backward just fine in OGG files, as long as they are downloaded first. If it's not local media, however, skipping/seeking is entirely broken. GStreamer doesn't throw any errors or provide any messages, it just simply doesn't work.

I tested this with Noise (Music) and discovered it behaves the exact same way. To reproduce, just launch Noise from the terminal with a remote OGG file as a parameter, for example:

noise http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s07e14.ogg

[Raik F (avelan)]

for me it works in luna with noise 0.2.4. I used the command you gave, but seeking worked just fine.

[Nathan Dyer (nathandyer)]

I just checked, and the bug is still happening in the latest version from trunk (0.3.0) running on elementary OS Freya.

[Raik F (avelan)]

okay someone with freya should test it then

[Bastien Nocera (hadess-deactivatedaccount)]

Enable the "download" flag in playbin for that. You might need to do some work to allow support for download buffering, which could allow you to play and download at the same time.

  flags : Flags to control behaviour
                        flags: readable, writable
                        Flags "GstPlayFlags" Default: 0x00000617, "soft-colorbalance+deinterlace+soft-volume+text+audio+video"
<snip>
                           (0x00000080): download - Attempt progressive download buffering
<snip>

Eventually, you'll want to be able to download using GStreamer, so that you could switch to playing in GStreamer when the user starts playing it mid-download (this is something we'll want in Totem too).

[Nathan Dyer (nathandyer)]

This is fixed with the new clutter-gst-3 backend in Vocal 2.0