[theora] oggz reading & seeking

[Chris Pearce]

Your decode will be encountering only interframes after the seek. It 
will return garbage until it encounters a keyframe. As ogg.k.ogg.k says, 
you need to seek back to the previous keyframe and decode forwards from 
there.

I fixed this in Firefox's HTML video element implementation. There's a 
patch in this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463358
which you may find useful. This uses the double-bisect method ogg.k 
mentioned. It still fails in some cases, due to these reasons: 
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2009-July/002549.html
Seeking is hard.

Another solution is here, but it's not as fast on local files:
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2009-July/002544.html


Chris P.

On 8/24/2009 7:06 AM, Manolache Adrian wrote:
>   I've rewritten my theora player using liboggz. I've stumbled upon a
> few issues though. First of all liboggz exposes oggz_read and oggz_run,
> but how can i read only sound data, or only video data using liboggz,
> say something like this: oggz_read_sound(1024), oggz_read_video(1024).
> Second of all i tried using liboggz's seek function. Immediately after
> the seek i get some "garbage" frames: how can i address this issue?
>
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