[MPlayer-users] Seek and subtitle issues with OGM files

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:24:47PM +0100, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> > I don't know if the timestamps in ogm are reliable enough for binary
> > search, though; mpeg has this idiocy where they can jump/reset
> > midstream.
> 
> They are reliable and don't reset anywhere - at least the tools I know
> about produce such files, so a binary search will work. The 'problem' is
> that no one cares enough to implement it, I guess :) You can always skip
> over such a point by using some bigger seek value (I have -10s and -60s
> on some keys, and -60s will always work even if -10s gets stuck).

Until some idiot decides to encode with keyint=1000 :))

Rich