[MPlayer-users] seek in millisecond position

Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson at cox.net
Mon Jul 2 14:03:56 CEST 2012


On 07/02/2012 06:03 AM, Oliver Seitz wrote:
>
>> how can i seek  in millisecond position instead of second.
>
> This can only be useful if you have a keyframe-only file. Otherwise,
> every seek would land on a near keyframe, which leads to a granularity
> usually bigger than one second. Therefore, seek positions with higher
> accuracy are quite rarely needed.
>

Isn't the upper limit in millisecond granularity defined by the formula 
1000/fps?  29.97 fps video would thus be limited to a 33.3667 ms resolution.

Anyway, what about MJPEG?  It's files are huge, but that *should* let 
you easily step frame by frame.

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