[Red5] Flashticle installation was : FLV File Format

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 12, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Frederic v. Bochmann wrote:

> On another note, would it be possible to seek randomly in a file  
> and be
> able, from that cursor location, to find the start of the next FLV Tag
> packet? This could potentially be interesting to create a good enough
> solution that doesn't involve indexing of the keyframes.

It's certainly possible, but probably not a very good idea.  There  
are a enough knowable things about a FLV frame that makes it possible  
to find one if you know you have a few.

It sure as hell wouldn't be anywhere near the simplest thing that  
could possibly work, and it would likely require a bunch more hits to  
the disk since you'd have to binary search for a timestamp.  Indexing  
on the other hand is trivial and it has very good performance  
characteristics, at a small cost of maintaining a little metadata  
somewhere or another.

-bob