[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] EDL seeking and timing

[Vlad Seryakov]

Hi,

Before sending a patch i'd like to consult first, here is the problem:

when recording TS files start time usually is non-zero, if using -edlout feature, time stamps in the file are huge numbers that work fine with this particular file, but if this file is re-encoded into .avi or .mkv where timestamp start with 0, the edl file stops working, all positions need to be adjusted by subtracting start_pts , making relative time positions. I am thinking about a command line option that will tell mplayer to do substraction automatically in both operations, when producing edl file, it will save relative positions and when invoked with -edl option and told to substract start time, it will do it when comparing current position. In summary, i'd like to add an option that will tell mplayer to use relative timestamp for EDL operations.
Is this correct approach?