[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] asf seek back at end of file after rewriting header

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 06:18:06PM +0200, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 04:13:15AM +0200, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> > [...]
> >> url_fsize does seek.
> > 
> > Actually that is not completely correct, it tries
> > size = s->seek(s->opaque, 0, AVSEEK_SIZE);
> > first.
> > Even thought that function is called seek, there is no need for this
> > operation to seek, and it can be implemented for all kinds of urls,
> > whether they are pipes or whatever.
> 
> Use f/stat to find file size instead of seek ? Is there any other
> solution ? In hope there is no portability problems.

stat only work normal files, what is the point of avoiding the seek with
those?? I only see a problem with pipes and similar, which can be
avoided by implementing AVSEEK_SIZE.

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger