HTTP streaming and client seek

[revolunet]

Hello all

I cannot make VLC streaming MPEG in HTTP (from avi, mpeg or other source) with client seeking possible. (seek bar doesn't appear at all)

Is it possible to stream and allow direct client seeking like Apache do with mpeg files ??

If not in HTTP, is it possible in RTSP or something else ?? As it seems possible to seek with telnet/http commands i think there should be a way do accomplish that...

Thank your for your ideas and sorry for my poor english...


Julien

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

No it is fundamentally not possible, since VLC HTTP streaming is real-time.

There is no point in using VLC for HTTP-based VoD, since you can efficiently do that wit Apache, IIS or whatever.

[revolunet]

Ok thank you Remi

this is now clear ;(

will this be implemented in the future ?

I don't understant why it cannot work because its working in VLM with the seek command...

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

There simply is not much point in competing with Apache.

[revolunet]

maybe its silly but what about a proxy to mimic apache headers and which could use the admin http interface to make the seek ?

perhaps this can be implemented directly in vlc, i don't know, as i'm not a C 'hardcore' coder

[JohnPeterson]

The benefit over a file server is that it would allow seeking together with transcoding. It would therefore be worthwhile to consider this suggestion.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

No. There is no point in implementing yet another open-source general purpose HTTP server. There are plenty of good options already available. And you can only make a web server that good when it is embedded inside a media player.

You do realize that HTTP allows seeking, and any sane web server supports that, don't you?