Learning new things all the time
This morning, I was able to enable seeking when streaming a contact’s library in my Telepathy extension for Banshee. For the longest time, I figured it would just work. Of course, it’s not that easy. So, last night I decided to do some googling. In turns out that, when streaming via HTTP, to request a skip, an HTTP Range header gets sent within the body of the request. So, the full HTTP request to skip to some point in a stream may look something like the following, which I captured from totem (the key bit is in bold):
It's been a long time...
…or, at least it feels like it has been. I’ve been pretty busy hacking away on my GSoC project. Speaking of my GSoC project, many have asked me “will streaming be a part of it?” And, my answer always was “No, but if I have time, I’ll try.” Well, it is my pleasure to tell you all that I did have time, I tried, and I succeeded! And, look, I have proof: