[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 115354] Disable HTTP request "Accept-Encoding:" header field on gstreamer source element to avoid receiving the wrong size when retrieving data

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115354


Sebastian Dröge <slomo at circular-chaos.org> changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Sebastian Dröge <slomo at circular-chaos.org>  2013-04-29 10:26:42 PST ---
The source should already handle wrongly returned values for the Content-Length field, the only problem then is that this will break seeking in quite some cases. What could be improved here is handling of compressed streams by actively interpolating the actual size from the so-far detected compression ratio. It wouldn't be accurate and can still cause the beforementioned seeking problems (if e.g. something is using the size in bytes for a duration calculation, or seeking to the end of the stream is done for whatever reason, like getting a footer there, or ....)


Turning off compression for multimedia streams should be no loss, if a generic compression scheme can compress a multimedia stream by a significant amount something is really wrong elsewhere.

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