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Dear all,

I am a new user of VLC and I wanted to develop an application that will allow me to stop a stream and then staring the stream again from the point that it stopped.

I wanted to know if there is a way of knowing the frame or time that the stream stopped and then using that information to start the stream from that point. The reason I want to do this is to have two versions of the same file and when I choose I can switch from one to the other while still staying in the same frame or time.

I know the answer is somewhere here but I thought I'd send the message while I am browsing the forums.

Thanking you all in advance,

Pericles

This will not be possible in vlc any time soon. VLC treats all data very simplistic and has no concepts of where frames are in a file.

If you're in Windows, and can program, the ActiveX control will keep you informed of the current timestamp. I wrote a small app that creates an xml file with the timestamp when I stop playing and restarts me at the same place if I restart the video at a later time.

Is there at least a way to start a vlc stream from a certain time? Will the start offset option allow me to do that? If so, then maybe I can set a timestamp right before starting the stream and then another when I want to close the stream and use the difference to start the next stream at that position.

I will try this and see how it works.

Thanks for the replies,

Pericles