[MPlayer-users] Scrubbing an mpeg4 movie...

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:49:14PM +0000, Stephen Mollett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 23 February 2004 15:47, Paul Simpson wrote:
> > Does anyone know any good settings/tips that will allow me to createa an
> > mpeg4 movie that can be scrubbed forwards/backwards than the deafult
> > settings allow?
> 
> If you want _maximum_ scrubbability, you're best off using a format like 
> MJPEG, where _every_ frame is a keyframe. Either that, or you'll need to 
> modify the player to cache entire GOPs in memory (and run it on sufficiently 
> beefy hardware).
> 
> For _improved_ scrubbability, you could simply decrease the keyframe interval 
> with the keyint=<x> libavcodec option.

WTF does this word "scrub" come from???

Rich