Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Wish list: file seek

[Krzysztof Kamieniecki]

Quoting Eric Blossom <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:15:07PM -0500, cswiger wrote:
> > Our function   gr.file_source()    does not appear to have any
> > seek ability - this would be a nice feature to have for recording
> > and playing back long time periods. AFAICT it starts at the beginning
> > plays a file once or repeats in a loop. Being able to seek to a
> > specific block sure would allow finer control over playback, as it
> > is you just have to wait.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea.
> 
> I'd suggest having the units that you're seeking be samples.  Then
> implement the normal SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END semantics.
> 
> Any volunteers?
> 
> Eric

Not volunteering but at the same time it might be useful to add functionality to
loop over a subset of the file.