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Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] 2 Bugs [?]
From: Hans Meine <meine () kogs1 ! informatik ! uni-hamburg ! de>
Date: 2003-03-12 13:14:13
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On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:38, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Btw, do developers know that seeking is somewhat broken? It works
> different for different type of files, sometimes incorrect, and seeking
> intervals smaller that 10 behave strangely... "seek +2" seems to be
> smallest seek in most files, and "seek -3" seeks the same amount
> backwards, for example... I can report more complete examples, if
> someone is interested.
Most of those effects can be explained with the need for a keyframe AFAIK.
That means that as long as the player does not search for the last keyframe
_before_ the point you want to seek to and calculates all the frames in
between (and mplayer does not do so), it can not give you (a non-distorted
version of) the exact frame you requested.
OTOH, I heard that mplayer at least had a bug at some point which evaluated
the keypress as well as the keyrelease (when pressing [->] for example).
However, there must be different keyboard drivers (depending on the
environment - X / linux console / ...) and I don't know if the bug was/is in
all those. I did not discover that problem yet.
To solve the problem that seeking forward/backward results in different steps,
maybe mplayer should not seek to the first keyframe after the seekpoint
(which i _guess_ it does) but to the _nearest_ keyframe (while making sure
that it still seeks into the right direction*).
Ciao,
Hans
* Imagine the current frame is 2secs after a keyframe, the next keyframe is 28
seconds in the future and you want to seek +10: The nearest keyframe to the
seekpoint would be that 2seconds in the past, naively seen.
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