[MPlayer-users] matroska seeking

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 05:06:01PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote:
> When seeking a .mkv file without -quiet, I find the seconds timestamp
> after A: and V: is correct, but the frame/frame timestamp counts
> monotonically upward irrespective of every seek.  With .avi, the
> frame/frame timestamp seems to show the actual frame number in the
> file being played---it jumps when I seek, and I can use it to quit
> mplayer and restart a movie where I left off.
> 
> Does this difference mean I'm merging the Matroska file improperly
> somehow?

no. it means it's only possible to know absolute frame number in
broken file formats like avi that only support fixed-fps video.

rich