[MPlayer-users] MEncoder: -ss ignored when reading from pipe ???

[Martin Hoffmann]

> known bug or not bug at all.
> -ss requires seeking, but stdin/fifo is not seekable.
But for -ss one would only need to seek through the stream and discard 
everything until the desired frame is reached where actually encoding starts 
!?
No backward seeking is needed here - just forward ...
So this could be done with a pipe !?

Martin.