[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [Patch] Trying harder to detect MP3

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:13:27PM +0100, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > Why does the seeking for movie_start at the end of the opening 
> > procedure not check for seekable?
> 
> It doens't really matter if it fail bcs the current detection code doesn't
> skip that many frames. If you go too far away in non-seekeable stream it can
> be a pb.

Brain damaged design like this is why mencoder gets horrible a/v sync
when someone tries cat *.vob | mencoder... IMO it should be fixed.

Rich