[MPlayer-users] mpeg2video slow seeking in Windows apps

[Jesse L. Zamora]

On Sunday 29 March 2009 06:14:19 pm RC wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:02:19 -0400
>
> "Jesse L. Zamora" <xtremek2009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > mencoder tv://3 -tv chanlist=us-bcast:norm=NTSC:buffersize=20 -of mpeg
> > -oac  lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> > acodec=mp2:vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=4100 -o  ~/Record.mpg
> >
> > When playing the video, it's not freezy or anything, but seeking to a
> > different time in the video takes several seconds to load.
>
> The default keyint is rather large...

Hmm.....setting keyint to 0 seems to make it play like a normal mpeg2 in 
Windows Media Player & VLC, even though at first, there were tons of errors or 
something until I set -mpegopts muxrate=20000! So, it seems to work fine now, 
but I'd like to know, what is the keyint parameter anyway?

Thanks,
Jesse L. Zamora