[MEncoder-users] mplayer / mencoder: precision of -ss

[Matthias Wieser]

Phil Ehrens wrote:
> Reza Roboubi wrote:
> > When I play back the stream, it's not exactly what I wanted.  In fact
> > it seems
> > a good number of seconds (maybe 6) off.
> >
> > How do you correct that?
>
> You don't. You can't seek to an arbitrary frame, you have to seek to an
> iframe and creep stealthily up on those skittish pframes.

That should be the internal mencoder behaviour and nothing the user should 
have to worry about.

Regards,
  Matthias