[MPlayer-users] Re: encoding from stdin

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:02:43AM +0400, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > > seeking will definitely be needed for encoding with b-frames
> > 
> > Actually it's impossible to do it that way, since you have to decode
> > the source video in order (for most formats). When using B frames the
> > encoder just has to keep the previous frames it wants to encode as B
> > until after it gets the next frame it will encode as I/P.
> 
> Then why *does* it try to seek? I use stdin with raw dv video (captured

To detect what demuxer to use. If you force it with -demuxer it
shouldn't have to seek... But maybe the DV demuxer is buggy and it
wants to seek for some reason too..

Rich