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| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/man/input.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/man/options.rst | 7 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/input.rst b/DOCS/man/input.rst index 987e369a15..2b3e2a3795 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/input.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/input.rst @@ -1264,9 +1264,9 @@ Property list Each entry in ``seekable-ranges`` represents a region in the demuxer cache that can be seeked to. If there are multiple demuxers active, this only returns information about the "main" demuxer, but might be changed in - future to return unified information about all demuxers. There is currently - only at most 1 range. Should the player implement caching for multiple - ranges, the order of the ranges will be unspecified and arbitrary. + future to return unified information about all demuxers. The ranges are in + arbitrary order. Often, ranges will overlap for a bit, before being joined. + In broken corner cases, ranges may overlap all over the place. The end of a seek range is usually smaller than the value returned by the ``demuxer-cache-time`` property, because that property returns the guessed diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 7dd1dc6af9..490b815415 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -2879,11 +2879,12 @@ Demuxer enabled, short seek offsets will not trigger a low level demuxer seek (which means for example that slow network round trips or FFmpeg seek bugs can be avoided). If a seek cannot happen within the cached range, a low - level seek will be triggered. Seeking outside of the cache will always - discard the full cache. + level seek will be triggered. Seeking outside of the cache will start a new + cached range, but can discard the old cache range if the demuxer exhibits + certain unsupported behavior. Keep in mind that some events can flush the cache or force a low level - seek anyway, such as switching tracks, or attmepting to seek before the + seek anyway, such as switching tracks, or attempting to seek before the start or after the end of the file. This option is experimental - thus disabled, and bugs are to be expected. |