[MPlayer-users] Seeking in MPEG2/MPEG4 streams

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 18:14 +0100, Barnabas Hajas wrote:
> Example image: http://kepfeltoltes.hu/100103/flatt1_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.png
> 
> Attached image shows testing MPEG-2: This sequence of still images
> were created specifying -vo png, I pressed the right arrow (seeking
> forwards) continuously till the movie clip ended. Finally collected
> stills with IrfanView Thumbnails. It shows that mplayer 1.0rc1 does
> the job well. SVN-r29355-4.5.0 didn't produce any images during
> seeking. I don't want to use older mplayer versions due to bugs and
> format-incompatiblity issues, but I really really miss this feature.
> Same case at DivX/XviD. Is there some workaround to resurrect fast
> seeking?

Try compiling MPlayer from git (use git://repo.or.cz/mplayer-build.git).
That should show an image immediately after every seek. Unlike the above
screenshot the images should be accurate; this makes generating them
somewhat slower, but unless your system is really slow I think it should
be an improvement.