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

[Daniel Brockman]

Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:

> (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.

Note:  As reported by Daniel Jensen, this bug is fixed in
       recent versions of VLC.

>>>> 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.

I can't seem to reproduce any stalling.
Daniel, do you still see this problem?

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Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>