[MPlayer-users] Seeking in MPEG2/MPEG4 streams

[Reimar Döffinger]

Assuming this is what I suspect it is..

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:14:18PM +0100, Barnabas Hajas wrote:
> I don't understand why it was good for
> developers to completely remove this kind of feature release by
> release.

Because it avoided some really annoying bugs, like mouse key release
events being lost.

> I hope this has something to do with libmpeg2 or an option
> (e.g. -lavdopts) which default value was changed during the releases.

Probably -key-fifo-size 2 gives the old behaviour (if you knew where to
look it would would have been in the manual :-) )
However now that I try it there seems to be another, rather strange, issue.
-demuxer lavf seems to avoid it for me.

> As mentioned on the index page www.mplayerhq.hu, SVN versions are
> recommended with the SMPlayer GUI. This GUI doesn't support real-time
> seeking at all. When I drag the slider and start moving it nothing
> happens, only when I drop it does mplayer seek to a SINGLE frame.

I think SMPlayer supports seeking via keyboard, too, maybe that works?
And you could also try submitting a feature request to the developer,
one of the reason it is recommended that there is a good chance that
feature requests will be implemented...