[MPlayer-users] suggestion

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:53:40AM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Would it be possible to work around the I frame limit (in any other way 
> than decoding the entire file into something huge), by having mplayer 
> seek to the previous i frame, and decoding every P and B and what not 
> up to the requested seek. Possibly with a 
> -iwant-seek-precision-not-speed option to enable it... I'm guessing 
> this wouldn't be doable in G1, or it'd been done already... So any 
> ideas on whether this will be something we'll enjoy in G2? :)

Yes, it will definitely be in G2 because it's needed for proper video
editing. Actually it could be hacked into G1 but it would likely be a
pain.

Rich