[Playlist] XSPF clipping

Lucas Gonze lgonze at panix.com
Fri Jun 2 00:43:54 UTC 2006


On Mon, 29 May 2006, Ryan Shaw wrote:
> Work with the DJ community and makers of software like Traktor.

Anybody know somebody at Traktor?  I can do a cold call but it takes about 
four times as long to establish credibility.

>> Is seeking within the body of an MP3 loaded via a URL even possible in 
>> Flash?
>
> Yes, although you can only seek as far as what has been progressively
> downloaded. If you want to seek to arbitrary points that have not yet
> been downloaded by the client, you need server-side support.

Ah!  Well, the thing I was thinking of was using the HTTP byte-range 
feature, which is generic to Apache.  Most servers will support that, the 
question is whether a Flash client can get into the request headers and 
muck around at this level of detail.

-Lucas



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