Re: [MMUSIC] RTSP: New Range header construct

[Sean Sheedy <Sean.Sheedy at arrisi.com>]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 13:02 -0800, Sheedy, Sean wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 04:55 -0800, HAAS Christian wrote:
> > I don't see the reason to avoid one extra round trip for this probably rarely
> > used feature. I'd rather go into the direction of a fast-forward (Scale
> > header) to have more usage options if the clients are annoyed to query the
> > server and perform a jump.
> 
> I already have a customer who uses repeated skips in place of visual
> fast forward or rewind.  With the current RTSP semantics, it requires
> two round trips for each skip.  For their use case, saving the extra
> round trip is significant.  (BTW, supporting this customer was the
> initial impetus for the proposal.)
> 
> > Although I don't have that much problems with a list of ranges in one header
> > as it is now, I might get them when these relative positions are allowed as
> > well; The following, valid, header would give me some headaches:
> >
> > Range: current+10-current+20, current-5-, current-30-current-20

It just occurred to me that the aforementioned customer could, in fact,
use syntax similar to your example for their repeated skips in a single
request.

Regards,
Sean

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Sean Sheedy
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