[MPlayer-users] Bug in mp3 seeking
Jindrich Makovicka
makovick at kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz
Mon Nov 11 17:42:02 CET 2002
Erik Simonsen wrote:
>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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>I think this is a bug in how mplayer handles the seeking of mp3s (I'm
>running 0.9-10pre). It might be intentional, but since movies don't
>work this way, I don't think it is.
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>When I seek a movie with the up arrow, it skips forward a minute at a
>time, until there is no more movie left to play. If there are 30
>seconds left, and I skip forward 1 minute, the movie skips past the end
>and mplayer closes. With mp3 playback, if I am seeking in 60 second
>intervals, I can't go past the end of the song. That is, if there are
>59 seconds left of the song when I hit up, it does nothing, and I have
>to wait the song out or use a different button. Either way, I can't
>just zoom through an mp3 while holding a single button. I think this is
>most problematic for software that use mplayer in slave mode, but it can
>be annoying for a user as well.
>
>Seeking backwards in mp3s does work correctly in that if you hit down
>while you are only 15 seconds into a song, it rewinds to second 0.
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yes, it's a (mis)feature. demuxer doesn't have support for seeking to
the end of file.
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Jindrich Makovicka
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