I think this is a bug in how mplayer handles the seeking of mp3s (I'm running 0.9-10pre). It might be intentional, but since movies don't work this way, I don't think it is. When I seek a movie with the up arrow, it skips forward a minute at a time, until there is no more movie left to play. If there are 30 seconds left, and I skip forward 1 minute, the movie skips past the end and mplayer closes. With mp3 playback, if I am seeking in 60 second intervals, I can't go past the end of the song. That is, if there are 59 seconds left of the song when I hit up, it does nothing, and I have to wait the song out or use a different button. Either way, I can't just zoom through an mp3 while holding a single button. I think this is most problematic for software that use mplayer in slave mode, but it can be annoying for a user as well. Seeking backwards in mp3s does work correctly in that if you hit down while you are only 15 seconds into a song, it rewinds to second 0. Thanks Erik
Erik Simonsen wrote:
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I think this is a bug in how mplayer handles the seeking of mp3s (I'm running 0.9-10pre). It might be intentional, but since movies don't work this way, I don't think it is.
When I seek a movie with the up arrow, it skips forward a minute at a time, until there is no more movie left to play. If there are 30 seconds left, and I skip forward 1 minute, the movie skips past the end and mplayer closes. With mp3 playback, if I am seeking in 60 second intervals, I can't go past the end of the song. That is, if there are 59 seconds left of the song when I hit up, it does nothing, and I have to wait the song out or use a different button. Either way, I can't just zoom through an mp3 while holding a single button. I think this is most problematic for software that use mplayer in slave mode, but it can be annoying for a user as well.
Seeking backwards in mp3s does work correctly in that if you hit down while you are only 15 seconds into a song, it rewinds to second 0.
yes, it's a (mis)feature. demuxer doesn't have support for seeking to the end of file. -- Jindrich Makovicka
Thanks for the quick reply. If I need still need this, can you point me to where in the code I should look if I want to hack my own workaround? Where is this skip handled? Thanks again Erik Simonsen On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 11:38, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] Erik Simonsen wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
I think this is a bug in how mplayer handles the seeking of mp3s (I'm running 0.9-10pre). It might be intentional, but since movies don't work this way, I don't think it is.
When I seek a movie with the up arrow, it skips forward a minute at a time, until there is no more movie left to play. If there are 30 seconds left, and I skip forward 1 minute, the movie skips past the end and mplayer closes. With mp3 playback, if I am seeking in 60 second intervals, I can't go past the end of the song. That is, if there are 59 seconds left of the song when I hit up, it does nothing, and I have to wait the song out or use a different button. Either way, I can't just zoom through an mp3 while holding a single button. I think this is most problematic for software that use mplayer in slave mode, but it can be annoying for a user as well.
Seeking backwards in mp3s does work correctly in that if you hit down while you are only 15 seconds into a song, it rewinds to second 0.
yes, it's a (mis)feature. demuxer doesn't have support for seeking to the end of file.
-- Jindrich Makovicka
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