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It is not streaming video, this is progressive download, but with redirect in .mov file. Here is a correct url: http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramoun ... _h480p.mov, file is ~56M

I'm having some difficulties in building VLC. First, after running boostrap, I've realized that the latest version of gettext available via cygwin is 0.15, and VLC require 0.16.1 I spend significant portion of my time compiling this module. After that I realize that latest win32 contrib package is a...

Sorry for bothering you - last question What is the typical practice in this project to obtain such knowledge? This was introduced to the file 3 years ago by fenrir. Should I ask this question in mailing list (I can see only svn-deamon mails there)? Or should I ask somewhere else?

Comparing logs, produced by VLC, that opens the same file over ftp and locally, I can see it does parse all chunks in the file header. The difference starts when it said "skipping movi chunk". libavi requests access module whenever "STREAM_CAN_FASTSEEK", file-module reported TRUE...

If it works locally I do not see why it cannot work on FTP using SIZE/REST

We can use REST for getting any piece of the file without downloading the whole binary :) I understand this is not a primary use case, but for me this is very convinient. I have linux wifi-router and hdd connected to it via USB. By default hdd is shared via ftp, in principle I can setup samba here, ...

Most of ftp servers support SIZE and REST commands. What is the algorithm of determining the size?

Thanks for replay, but can you please clarify what exactly the problem with determining .avi size over ftp?

First of all I would like to thank you developers of this product - VLC 0.9 is the only player, which I can use successfully to watch video over FTP. Majority of the players, that pretends to do so actually download the whole movie to the hdd and only after that start playback. 0.8.6 has a problem w...