[Libav-user] Using libavformat/libavcodec with sample accurate seeking

[Christopher Snowhill]

I've noticed that when using these libraries in my own projects, at
least in VGMStream, and with the WMA Pro codec, it is necessary to
perform my own pre-roll when seeking for looping, or else the codec
ramps the audio in from silence on every loop as it catches back up to a
valid state. I currently use either two seconds, or the beginning of the
file if it's less than two seconds prior to the intended seek point,
then discard sample data that is returned by the decoder.

Is this always necessary by design? Or am I misusing the seeking API?

I currently use:

int64_t ts = target_sample * formatCtx->duration / total_samples;
avformat_seek_file(formatCtx, -1, ts - 1000, ts, ts, AVSEEK_FLAG_ANY);

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