sequential mode not seekable on windows

[rhwu]

./minimp4_x86 -m stream.h264 stream.mp4
./minimp4_x86 -m -s stream.h264 stream-s.mp4
./minimp4_x86 -m -f stream.h264 stream-f.mp4

All of them are seakable with quicktime player on Mac. But stream-f.mp4 is not seekable with windows media player.

Is this something that can be improve?

Thanks!

[lieff]

Hmm, I've always used the K-Lite codec pack and Media Player Classic on the windows.. Otherwise there problems with many media files.

If default mp4 splitter do not prints anything to debug output, then we cant use it to debug this. Other media validators should be used in this case (I do not have any currently).

[lieff]

Without k-lite pack I do not see any generic mp4 demuxers available in directshow. There only DTV-DVD decoder and I can reproduce issue with it:

So it may be just not intended to use with media files instead of DTV-DVD. Any splitter/demuxer from K-Lite works fine.

[rhwu]

The default mode and sequential mode seem be playing fine though.

It will be ideal if there's a mode that combines the benefit of both sequential mode and fragmentation mode, i.e. decoding can start right away but at the same time with something at the end for duration/seeking.

Don't know much about the mp4 spec, maybe this is not possible. Either way, thanks for looking into this!

[lieff]

Yes, I've checked also default and fragmentation modes and it's played fine with DTV-DVD decoder, so it's looks like what enabled on your side.

It will be ideal if there's a mode that combines the benefit of both sequential mode and fragmentation mode

Fragmentation mode already sequential, but it's even less efficient because indexes flushed many times.
Default mode and sequential combine is not possible:

In non sequential mode each MP4E_put_sample will put new frame in this one big mdat chunk. When we ready to stop and write indexes - we need go back write correct mdat chunk size (it's located at beginning of chunk). Technically it's possible if we know all frames size we will write at start (and for all tracks), and then write exactly this amount, but this rarely the case.