flacparse: Seeking from a http source takes a long time

Submitted by Jonathan Miles

Link to original bug (#788052)

Description

Created attachment 360268
Program to perform a seek on a given URI after 10 seconds

When using gst-player to play a flac track from an http server, seeks take a very long time (10s of seconds upwards). This is not seen when playing from a file.

This behaviour is a regression from 1.10.5. Reverting adeee44b (fix for bug 727802) makes seeking work in a more timely fashion again.

A simple program using gst-player to play a URI and perform a seek after 10 seconds is attached. The file I've been testing with can be downloaded from http://upgrades.uuvol.com/alanis.flac

Attachment 360268, "Program to perform a seek on a given URI after 10 seconds":
seek-test.c

Version: 1.12.3