[MPlayer-users] Seeking in MPEG2/MPEG4 streams

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:53:30PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > 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.

Actually it seems your guess was even better, for MPEG files -vc mpeg12
works far better (compared to not at all without) for seeking with the
default demuxer.