[Matroska-devel] Haali Media Splitter file locking

[Михаил Мацнев]

Lewis Thompson wrote:
> I've been playing around with trying to play partially extracted mkv
> files, i.e. run "unrar e -vp -kb film.rar" (this causes unrar to wait
> for c to be pressed each time it finds a missing archive, on each
> press it extracts another volume, appending to the existing file)
> I'm not a Windows expert, but it appears that Haali is trying to get
> an exclusive read lock on the file... obviously this will fail as
> unrar still has a write lock
> Assuming what I've said is correct, would it be possible to add an
> option to Haali splitter that changes the open locking behaviour?
I already use FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE in my code, so you are
probably seeing some other code interfering with playback.