Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Wish list: file seek

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:15:07PM -0500, cswiger wrote:
> Our function   gr.file_source()    does not appear to have any
> seek ability - this would be a nice feature to have for recording
> and playing back long time periods. AFAICT it starts at the beginning
> plays a file once or repeats in a loop. Being able to seek to a
> specific block sure would allow finer control over playback, as it
> is you just have to wait.

Sounds like a good idea.

I'd suggest having the units that you're seeking be samples.  Then
implement the normal SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END semantics.

Any volunteers?

Eric