[MPlayer-users] Bug in mp3 seeking

[Erik Simonsen]

I think this is a bug in how mplayer handles the seeking of mp3s (I'm
running 0.9-10pre).  It might be intentional, but since movies don't
work this way, I don't think it is.

When I seek a movie with the up arrow, it skips forward a minute at a
time, until there is no more movie left to play.  If there are 30
seconds left, and I skip forward 1 minute, the movie skips past the end
and mplayer closes.  With mp3 playback, if I am seeking in 60 second
intervals, I can't go past the end of the song.  That is, if there are
59 seconds left of the song when I hit up, it does nothing, and I have
to wait the song out or use a different button.  Either way, I can't
just zoom through an mp3 while holding a single button.  I think this is
most problematic for software that use mplayer in slave mode, but it can
be annoying for a user as well.

Seeking backwards in mp3s does work correctly in that if you hit down
while you are only 15 seconds into a song, it rewinds to second 0.

Thanks
Erik