[MPlayer-users] option -ss seek position not seeking past 8 minutes

[Jerry Geis]

You are correct. seeking into the movie 9 min (which works) is WAY 
further than
9 minutes.

How can I use this option to start playing at a certain "time" index 
into the movie?
Is there another way?

Jerry 


The Wanderer wrote:

> Jerry Geis wrote:
>
>>
>> I am playing a DVD movie. I am wanting to seek into the movie with
>> -ss 00:10:00 and mplayer exits. Why can I not seek 10 minuites into
>> the movie?
>
>
> This is very likely because MPEG seeking is inaccurate; it is probably
> seeking to the place which it thinks will be ten minutes in, and then
> finding out that the place which it has reached is past the end of the
> movie,and so exiting.
>
> The alternative is that the particular track you're watching is in fact
> less than ten minutes long, but presumably you'd be able to tell that
> yourself, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
>
>> my full command is "mplayer -ss 00:10:00 dvd://1"
>>
>> if I seek one minute that works -ss 00:01:00
>
>
> And how far into the movie does it leave you? Very likely it is not in
> fact one minute; it is probably rather more.
>