[MPlayer-users] mplayer: slow seek forwards

[Reimar Döffinger]

James Board <jpboard2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I have video data that 1920x1080 in resolution and created with
>mencoder by these commands
>
>    mencoder IN.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
>vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=10000000:threads=1:keyint=15:vpass=1 -oac copy -o
>/dev/null
>    mencoder IN.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
>vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=10000000:mbd=2:trell:threads=1:keyint=15:vpass=2 
>-oac copy -of mpeg -o OUT.avi
>
>
>I playback fullscreen with mplayer on an LCD TV.  Whenever I try to
>seek forward with the arrow buttons,
>the video pauses for 1 or 2 seconds, then starts playing again.  This
>doesn't happen with
>other 1920x1080 videos.  The problem isn't a slow filesystem, and I'm
>using a fast
>Intel i7 CPU.  What could the problem be?  Could the avi format somehow
>cause the
>problem?

No, since you specified -of mpeg, and thus your file isn't in avi format. Seeking in mpeg files is expected to be slow.