[MPlayer-users] -ss option seeks to a wrong position

[Jozef Riha]

On 11/15/06, 塚田 あきひろ <tskd2 at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> I use 1.0rc1 on FC6/x86, and when I play a movie (21sec,
> 15fps wmv video) with '-ss' options,
> mplayer seeks to a wrong position.
>
> Here is the results of some tests I've done.
>
> Option         start time
> ----------------------------
> (without -ss)  00:00:03     (ends at 00:00:24)
> -ss 0          00:00:03
> -ss 1          00:00:09
> ....
> -ss 4          00:00:09
> -ss 5          00:00:14
> ....
> -ss 10         00:00:14
> -ss 11         00:00:20
> ....
> -ss 16         00:00:20
> -ss 17         (> 00:00:21 ?, as the playout ends
> immediately.)
> -----------------------------

AFAIK -ss only seeks to the nearest key-frame. just like the arrow&pgup/dn keys.

cheers, joe