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

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:15:02PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> 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.

Then get back to us when you have a patch to add a "smart copy" mode
to mencoder, but it can't be always-enabled anyway due to codecs with
no encoder.

Rich