[MPlayer-users] Bug 1 of 2: MKV fast forward doesn't work correctly - Mac OS X 10.3.9

[Ergzay]

On 2006/04/02, at 15:43, Ergzay wrote:
>
> On 2006/03/21, at 8:41, Ergzay wrote:
>
>> On 2006/03/21, at 8:31, Ergzay wrote:
>>
>>> On 2006/03/21, at 4:06, |TEcHNO| wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2006/03/21, at 1:20, Ergzay wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> When I play mkv files (for extra info these are using h264 and ogg
>>>>> vorbis usually) and I try to fast forward it doesn't go forward 10
>>>>> seconds or 1 minute as the appropriate keys should. It jumps 
>>>>> forward
>>>>> much further than this. It seems to be exponential to some degree
>>>>> because when I am near the end of the file the amounts are much 
>>>>> larger
>>>>> and usually just jumps to the end of the file.
>>>>
>>>> This coudl be coused by the file encoding. The man says somewhere, 
>>>> the
>>>> the jump is to the keyframe, nearest of the time wanted, so your 
>>>> files
>>>> can be encoded with a small number of keyframes. Guess if you feel 
>>>> it's
>>>> not the case, post some more info.
>>>
>>> I mean a LARGE amount. The first press of the left arrow key will do 
>>> 20 seconds instead of 10. The second press and it will jump to 
>>> around 1 minute fast forward. A few more times and it jumps to the 
>>> end of my half hour file. With about 5 presses of the fast forward 
>>> 10 seconds button it goes through the entire file. Oh, and I forgot 
>>> to add. If I rewind instead of fast forward the amounts are normal.
>>
>> And, sorry for double post but I am not sure on the exact files that 
>> do it. I do know I have an h264 file with ogg vorbis audio and soft 
>> subs and it does it. I also have a mkv with xvid and aac and soft 
>> subs and it also exhibits this problem. And further yet, I also have 
>> a .mp4 with h264 and AAC with hard subs and that works fine. This 
>> means it isn't the h264 causing it most likely. From these results 
>> its the soft subs or the mkv or the combination.
>
> Well... To triple post. Someone else responded and got their problem 
> fixed but this problem is still there and has always been there since 
> I started using mplayer. I would really like this to be fixed as it is 
> incredibly annoying. And to just further verify, it isn't the soft 
> subs. The problem is ONLY with .mkv files and ALL of them at that, no 
> matter audio codecs, video codecs, and subtitles.

Wow, a quadruple post. This is the most annoying bug on mplayer for me 
currently and is quite serious IMO. So is anyone going to consider 
fixing this or am I stuck permanently with a broken mkv player and will 
I just have to use VLC if I want to fast forward?

Ergzay