[MPlayer-users] "Cannot seek backwards"

[Magnus Karlsson]

Hi,

doesn't anyone experienced this problem before? It is possible to play 
using the -demuxer 35 option, but this doesn't work in mencoder, why?

...
Playing \Movie\WinFast WorkArea\Video1207-1607(TV36).mpg.
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
...

Rgds,
Magnus

> Hi,
>
> From time to time I encounter the below error when trying to play 
> regular media-files. Any clues? Is the size of the file the issue? 
> It's about 4,4GB and I am about to compress it using mencoder.
>
> Regards,
> Magnus
>
> D:\Files\MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre7\mplayer>mplayer "\Movie\WinFast 
> WorkArea\Video1
> 207-1607(TV36).mpg"
> MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
> To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with 
> --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
>
> c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description, 
> ignoring.
> Cannot load font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
> Playing \Movie\WinFast WorkArea\Video1207-1607(TV36).mpg.
> Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
> Seek failed
>
>
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open
> - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
>  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
>  disassembly. Details in 
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> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
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> D:\Files\MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre7\mplayer>
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