Issue with seeking while streaming (WIndows) about rclonebrowser HOT 6 CLOSED

Which remote are you using? Google Drive? Are you using your own API credentials?
If you use the default ones you might run into the rate limit, see here: https://forum.rclone.org/t/seeking-in-a-gdrive-mount-hangs/8615

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Yes, Drive. And I am not.

I see. Well I followed this tutorial and added them within the config and the same issue persists. I am not able to seek/scrub with the media player being used to stream. Do I need to link the JSON as well?

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I believe seeking always will be problematic due to nature of cloud storage. There are usually object storage systems and do not offer downloading specific parts of files. RcloneBrowser only invokes rclone and redirect data stream to configured player. There might be some issue with rclone you can raise with them.

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Okay, well I just thought I would mention the bug since the streaming behavior works normally if the remote is mounted and the media file is played. Thank you.

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Streaming invokes rclone reading a remote file and redirecting stream of data to your configured player. It can't jump forward as all stream has to be read first.

When you mount remote there is another layer (FUSE) which provides buffering. FUSE simulates typical file system and might read file content in advance. When already buffered in file system your player can read whatever part of the file you request.

And in both cases player provides its own buffering

So it is not a bug per se but rather nature of rclone.

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Like you said...

Ok then, this issue can be closed, thank you.

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