[MPlayer-users] seeking in certain mkv files broken

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Thursday 07 September 2006 17:58, ＳｒｉｎＴｕａｒ wrote:
> I long noticed this issue, but it seems to have never been resolved.
> I'm not sure if the problem is in mplayer itself, or if it is a side effect
> of
> a poorly encoded file perhaps.
>
> What I have seen since mkv's first started becoming common was that
> some of them gave mplayer trouble in seeking. (trying to seek around
> while watching the movie play is problematic)
>
> I'm sure others have seen this, but I can give a link to torrent files
> that demonstrate the issue if needed.

I've never heard of such problems, so samples would be welcome.

> I'm currently running the latest 
> mplayer built from SVN on a fedora core machine.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else had encountered this, and whether or
> not it was a problem is someone's encode, a known issue in mplayer,
> etc etc.
>
> I've put up with it for ages now, assuming it would get fixed over time.
> I wouldnt mind peeking around in the code that controls seeking if
> someone gave me a hint where the best place to start looking was.

Take a look at demux_mkv_seek() in demux_mkv.c.