Re: Enhanced Streaming

> Hi folks,
> But it's really annoying that I cannot seek in the stream when the file 
> is playing in xmms.
> 
> Is xmms capable of actually buffering the whole file (as fast as it can 
> or settably so) while it's still playing so that seeking around is 
> possible?  Is there a plugin for this already?  Is the plugin API 
> extensible enough to make this possible (without rewriting a majority of 
> what's already built in)?  If so I might be willing to work on one.
> 
Don't know the details of xmms implementation/capabilities, but it 
sure is possible. We could even be smarter than Window's mediaplayer, 
and allow seeks into regions which hasn't yet been downloaded, if we 
retrieved data using the 'range' parameter to http/1.1. 

A local array for caching the stream (or a s/g list) would do the 
job...

/Anders