[MPlayer-users] seek in .rm files no longer working

[Juergen Lock]

In article <20060929215416.6338f1bd at tower2.myhome.qwe> you write:
>On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:10:35 +0200
>Juergen Lock <mplayer-users-l at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:
>
>> Recently I updated mplayer (I'm on FreeBSD, using the port,
>> 	http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/mplayer
>> which is at 1.0pre8), and now I cannot seek in recorded rm files anymore.
>> Well i can seek, but the video stops after that, I only get audio...
>> (Actually, after a while, I get a message `Too many video packets in
>> the buffer' and video is played again, but its way out of sync with
>> the audio.)
>> 
>> How to repeat:
>> 
>>  record, say, nasatv for a few minutes:
>> 
>>         mplayer -dumpstream
>rtsp://a1747.l1856745839.c18567.g.lr.akamaistream.ne
>> t/live/D/1747/18567/v0001/reflector:45839

Oops, there's an \n too much in there, should be
	rtsp://a1747.l1856745839.c18567.g.lr.akamaistream.net/live/D/1747/18567/v0001/reflector:45839
>> 
>>  (stop with ^c)  then play it back:
>> 
>>         mplayer -mc 10 stream.dump
>> 
>>  (-mc 10 is needed so that audio and video will get in sync), and then
>> while it plays hit cursor right to seek forward (cursor left for back).
>> watch video being stopped...
>> 
>>  Is this a known problem?  Is it fixed in cvs already?
>
>-mc 10 is a known problem, the seeking was not.

The funny(?) thing is, the seeking worked with my previos mplayer
version...  (problem also happens with -ss btw as i just found out.)

>Seeking is probably not fixed in svn yet, but nasatv stream is known to
>have problems with pre8 (video freeze during playback) that are fixed
>in svn, so maybe it worths a try.
>There are basically 2 problems: huge timestamps that roll into negative
>numbers, and loss of precision on timestamps.

 Oh, missing `unsigned' somewhere?
>
>I'm working on it, I hope to have it fixed before STS-116 :)

 :)  (will you post on this thread when its fixed?)

 Thanx,
	Juergen