2015-01-10, 13:35
Unfortunately, and much to my frustration, since I would really like to help you out if I could, I'm no programmer.
From other plugins, such as the old XBMC Torrent, I can imagine that XBMC, once it reads the header of a file, "knows" which bytes to ask for. Otherwise how could it handle streaming a 30+GB file via SMB, with perfect seeking? Even on a gigabit internal network, the file is not copied instantly. Google Drive supports requesting a file from a certain byte. Not being a programmer, I suppose that this should be all that's needed for having seeking implemented. But I might be missing something fundamental.
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=210752
From other plugins, such as the old XBMC Torrent, I can imagine that XBMC, once it reads the header of a file, "knows" which bytes to ask for. Otherwise how could it handle streaming a 30+GB file via SMB, with perfect seeking? Even on a gigabit internal network, the file is not copied instantly. Google Drive supports requesting a file from a certain byte. Not being a programmer, I suppose that this should be all that's needed for having seeking implemented. But I might be missing something fundamental.
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=210752
