[MPlayer-users] suggestion

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:24:48AM +0100, tarass at club-internet.fr wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would wonder if there was an option like -ss but in frames.
> Is that technically difficult to do ?

Yes, it is. Most file formats don't even have a sense of frame number.
And even then, seeking is not exact (because you can only seek to
keyframes) so having a "seek to frame" would just suggest a false
sense of exactness. If you _do_ happen to have a file where exact
frame seeking is possible, just compute the time (in seconds, based on
framerate) of the frame you want and use -ss.

Rich