[MPlayer-users] Bug in mp3 seeking
Erik Simonsen
erik at pinksheets.com
Mon Nov 11 18:20:02 CET 2002
Thanks for the quick reply. If I need still need this, can you point me
to where in the code I should look if I want to hack my own workaround?
Where is this skip handled?
Thanks again
Erik Simonsen
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 11:38, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Erik Simonsen wrote:
>
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> yes, it's a (mis)feature. demuxer doesn't have support for seeking to
> the end of file.
>
> --
> Jindrich Makovicka
>
>
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