[MPlayer-users] Seeks to a wrong position with -ss option in wmv files

[Alejandro Vargas]

2007/2/8, Morris Beverly <morrisb at avpresentations.com>:
> > -ss does not start at the exact time given by you. It starts at the
> > next keyframe after this time.
> >
>
> I would guess that you could transcode it to an avi to get relatively
> frame accurate start times.

The only way to make -ss to start exactly at the point you given is to
convert to avi with ALL KEYFRAMES, i.e. -avcopts key=1 or key=0 (I'm
not sure) or using mjpeg. But the resulting file will be very big.

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Alejandro Vargas