[MPlayer-users] Problems seeking in flv files

[Dennis Nezic]

I know seeking in mplayer in general isn't as good as it should be
(it /still/ can only round off seek requests to the nearest keyframe?)
but can't seeking to *the beginning* at least work? :b. It actually
does for every format I remember trying, except flv files. If I try to
seek back to before the beginning (say seek back 10s after playing the
video for 3s), it does all sorts of funny things, from starting near
the end (with a garbled blocky image -- as if it missed a keyframe or
something), to starting roughly where it already was, to exiting. Why
doesn't it know it's near the beginning, and seek to the very beginning?

Ffplay is worse -- it can't seek backwards when it's too close to the
beginning at all ("error while seeking") -- and same thing near the end
-- often all seeking will mysteriously stop working if such "invalid
seeks" are attempted.

MPlayer SVN-r29699-4.3.2
VIDEO:  [FLV1]  320x240  0bpp  25.000 fps  282.4 kbps (34.5 kbyte/s)

FFplay SVN-r19928
Stream #0.0: Video: flv, yuv420p, 320x240, 282 kb/s, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k
tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, 2 channels, s16