Cant seek forward/backwards in divx streams

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to kino.to or iload.to and search for a divx stream
2. Try to seek within the stream via navigation bar.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Moving the navigation bar on some place will play the stream from there on.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.9.8 on debian squeeze/sid

Please provide any additional information below.
I have tried to open an unfinished chunck of the stream via terminal with
plain mplayer. The terminal output informs me about no index were found and
that i can generate it with -idx. When doing so it is possible to seek
forward and backwards at least on the indexed piece of the file.

For windows the official divx player is capable of seeking withing the stream.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by schn...@gmail.com on 7 Jan 2010 at 1:54

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The -idx parameter causes problems with the media when is it used on media that 
is
caching. It creates a bad index (because the index is created when the media is
started to be played, which is normally at the 20% mark) and it prevents 
playback
past that point. I used to use the -idx parameter in mplayerplug-in but found 
this to
be the case. Once the media is completely downloaded you should be able to seek,
since that is when the medias index is available. This mplayer not allowing the 
seek,
not gnome-mplayer.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 7 Jan 2010 at 1:48

• Changed state: Done