[MPlayer-users] Skew between seek and get_time_pos

[Peter Seibel]

Hi, I'm using mplayer in -slave mode to play a WMA file and am noticing 
a bit of skew between the times I seek to and the times reported via 
get_time_pos. I've tried the following experiment on both Linux and OS X:

1) Create a file 'commands' with the content:

  seek 120.0 2
  get_time_pos

2) Launch mplayer as follows where file.wma is some .wma file. (Mine is 
about an hour long, in case that matters)

  mplayer -quiet -slave file.wma < commands

When I run it I see:

  ANS_TIME_POSITION=115.4

I'd expect it to be at least 120.0.

As I seek farther and farther into the file the get_time_pos value gets 
more and more behind the seek value.

Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding how things are supposed to work?

-Peter

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