Re: [bongo-devel] Re: seek and volume

[Daniel Brockman]

(Sorry, I hit the wrong button and accidentally sent my
previous message before actually writing the reply.)

address@hidden (Daniel Jensen) writes:

> Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Daniel Jensen) writes:
>>
>>> Seeking to 0%; I get "Elapsed time not available", where
>>> it used to just stay at 0% while the key was pressed.
>>
>> Oh, I did that on purpose because VLC keeps saying it's at
>> zero seconds offset when playing a CD.  (In fact, it doesn't
>> seem to know the offset at all.)

[...]

>> Can you think of a workaround?  I guess we could start off
>> assuming zero means "zero", but if we keep getting zero for
>> more than a few seconds, assume it means "don't know"?
>
> I have to assume this is a bug in VLC. Bongo should not
> have to do something funky because of this. Do you agree?

Yes, I agree.  I reverted the change.  Seeking to the
beginning of the file now works without discontinuity.

>>> The mpg123 back-end now has problems with the progress bar.
>>> It stalls during seeking.
>>
>> I can't reproduce this and I'm not sure what you mean.
>> How does it stall and how you you provoke the stalling?
>
> I hold `f' down, my usual test. Seems to catch a lot of bugs. :-)
>
> After a while the (visual) progress stalls. But seeking is
> still going on in the background.

I have still not looked into this, however.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>