[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] better seeking in dvd

Nico Sabbi nicola_sabbi at fastwebnet.it
Sun May 7 22:16:17 CEST 2006


Corey Hickey wrote:

>For those to whom my response seems a bit out of context, 
>
what response? did I lose something?

>I tested a
>couple earlier revisions of this patch before Nico posted it to the
>list. Anyway:
>
>
>This works very well now on The Fellowship of the Ring, but still has
>problems with Star Wars. I assume the problem is due to the PTS resets
>-- it happens in their vicinity, both in the beginning of the movie and
>at the reset near the middle. Here's a bit more detail.
>
>- When the current position is a little past one of the early resets,
>seeking forward by 10s or 60s jumps back to an earlier position.
>- When the current position is far past the early resets, all seeking is
>fine, until:
>- When the current position is past the mid-movie reset, seeking by 10s,
>60s, or 600s jumps back to near the beginning of the movie.
>- 'mplayer -ss xxxx' hits EOF when xxxx is past the mid-movie PTS reset,
>even if xxxx is less than the actual movie length. Actually, the old
>code can't handle that either, but it would be really nice to have,
>since -ss is nearly useless for seeking in such DVDs.
>
>Nico, is there any more information I can provide short of mailing you
>the DVD? :)
>
>-Corey
>
>  
>

please, resend the output of ifo_dump of Star Wars: the one you sent me is
either broken or plain wrong, because there are no timings.
And make sure you are using this last patch, please.

Thanks,

    Nico




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