[MPlayer-dev-eng] Seek in non-indexed AVI, a solution?

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 05:05:55 -0300 (ART)
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <gsbarbieri at yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> I don't know AVI internals very well, so I may be wrong.
> 
> But if instead of requiring the user to use -idx or -forceidx, couldn't
> MPlayer calculate just few blocks ahead, enough to search 1 minute or
> so... And we can have a cmdline toggle for disable that. 
> 
> That's possible, resonable?

Yes it would be possible and was disscussed some time ago.
The reason why this idea was dropped was that it needs additional
cpu which could render a movie unwatchable on a slow machine.
MPlayer's philosophy is not to use more cpu than necessary unless
the user wants it. 

			Attila Kinali
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