[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc: make timespec more precise

[Marton Balint]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote:

> Fixes Ticket4595
>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanagadde at gmail.com>
> ---
> doc/ffmpeg.texi | 11 +++++++----
> doc/ffplay.texi | 12 ++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>

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> diff --git a/doc/ffplay.texi b/doc/ffplay.texi
> index 1ee3c30..4c74713 100644
> --- a/doc/ffplay.texi
> +++ b/doc/ffplay.texi
> @@ -47,9 +47,17 @@ Disable video.
> @item -sn
> Disable subtitles.
> @item -ss @var{pos}
> -Seek to a given position in seconds.
> +Seek to @var{pos}. Note that in most formats it is not possible to seek
> +exactly, so @command{ffplay} will seek to the closest seek point before
> + at var{pos}.

Is this actually true? FFplay is using
avformat_seek_file(ic, -1, INT64_MIN, timestamp, INT64_MAX, 0)
for the initial seek, and according to docs this seeks to the keyframe 
closest to timestamp, and not to the keyframe before timestamp. Or am I 
missing something?

Regards,
Marton