[Qt-interest] Phonon - Play back a downloading video file

[Jonathan Wong]

Andy,

My colleague tried it. Did a MediaObject.setSource(), but failed to open the file again. Opening
the file first will cause setSource() to fail.

How did you play a video file while it is still open for appending?

Jonathan Wong wrote:
> Wow, one of my staff told me that wasn't possible, playing video file while still appending to it.
> Thanks for the heads up!
> 
> (Sorry, repost. Sent to Andy privately before. The Reply-to doesn't seem to be the list address.)
> 
> Andy Bell wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like to playback a video via Phonon whilst I am actually
>> downloading the video.  I can open the video file and play it back
>> whilst it is downloading but I would like to be able to have the player
>> pause when it reaches the end of the already downloaded video so that
>> more video can be buffered and played back.  Is this possible?  If so,
>> what do I need to do to accomplish this with Phonon? 
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Andy Bell
>>
>>
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