Add AVSEEK_FORCE flag to indicate that the code should attempt to seek

by any means.

Originally committed as revision 22557 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavformat/avio.h b/libavformat/avio.h
index 80ec48f725..8145f92861 100644
--- a/libavformat/avio.h
+++ b/libavformat/avio.h
@@ -192,6 +192,14 @@ int64_t av_url_read_seek(URLContext *h, int stream_index,
  */
 #define AVSEEK_SIZE 0x10000
 
+/**
+ * Oring this flag as into the "whence" parameter to a seek function causes it to
+ * seek by any means (like reopening and linear reading) or other normally unreasonble
+ * means that can be extreemly slow.
+ * This may be ignored by the seek code.
+ */
+#define AVSEEK_FORCE 0x20000
+
 typedef struct URLProtocol {
     const char *name;
     int (*url_open)(URLContext *h, const char *url, int flags);