[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/4] lavf/segment: Mark output contexts as non-seekable

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 07:25:19PM -0600, Rodger Combs wrote:
> This prevents sub-muxers from trying to seek back to the beginning of the
> whole stream, only to find themselves overwriting some video data in the
> current (often last) segment.
> ---
>  libavformat/segment.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

this breaks the case where each segment has its own header & trailer
and needs seeking, for example:

./ffmpeg -i matrixbench_mpeg2.mpg  -f segment -segment_time 2 -t 5 -an file%03d.mp4

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