[MPlayer-dev-eng] Millisecond perfect seek.

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Tue Feb 10 14:02:50 CET 2009


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:02:17AM +0100, J wrote:
> 
> I'm currently in process of developing an application which uses
> mplayer as it's video backend. Everything would be great, except that
> one of my requirements is millisecond perfect seeking (or close
> enough). Unless I'm missing something it seems that it's not possible
> to seek under one second using mplayer, or more for that matter if you
> want precision - it just rounds every seek to the next keyframe.
> 
> So, my question is, how would I go about implementing such a feature?
> Any pointers would be appreciated.

Transcode the content to a format that has only keyframes.

Diego



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