Some Support, on 22 April 2010 - 09:02 PM, said:
Wow, I could kiss you for that (don't worry, I'm from the opposite sex )
And a little question please: I have the latest partfile plugin installed on an older compatible VLC version (0.86c) and the plugin shows up in the VLC settings, so it is properly installed. And there definitely are differences between VLC with and without the partfile plugin, so the plugin definitely has SOME (positive) effect, meaning that VLC can (sometimes!) access more parts of a partially downloaded video file for example.
But what always puzzled me is the following:
Let's say we have a 93min/930MB video file with the first and last piece downloaded and one piece somewhere in the middle. Depending on the file, on my system VLC with partfile plugin can sometimes access the middle piece, sometimes it can't. But either way, the timeline displayed by VLC is still 100 min and you can see the timeline cursor read through the entire not-yet-downloaded-part between the first and the middle piece ...
... whereas I always thought that the whole point of the partfile plugin was the concept to provide VLC with a consistent and more or less gapless stream from the partfile, i.e. (virtually) concatenating all the downloaded pieces (resulting in an approx. 27 min video in the present case and shown as such in the VLC timeline).
So why is this not happening?