[MPlayer-users] Problems seeking during jpeg output

[John Mahar]

Thanks, I am using command line, not the actual player, and it does it to
every video file I throw at no matter the extension or anything. It always
captures the first frame.

On 12/28/05, peter kostov <mplayer at light-bg.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 17:07 -0600, John Mahar wrote:
> > First id like to say this is wonderful software. I have had seemless
> install
> > and no problems. The only issue I have is generating a frame. Ive tried
> a
> > bunch of commands, and they all pull the first few, id like to grab one
> from
> > a random spot.
> > First thing I do is use and identify and extract the length, then
> generate a
> > number inbetween 0 and the length. The number is then passed to the
> command
> > line, I have debuged and the command is running with the right numbers:
> > $cmd = "mplayer -nosound -vo jpeg:smooth=90:outdir=".$output." -frames 1
> > ".$video;
> > $cmd = "mplayer -ss ".$randoml." -ao null -vo
> > jpeg:smooth=90:outdir=".$output." -frames 4 ".$video;
> > $cmd = "mplayer $video -ao null -vo jpeg:smooth=90:outdir=".$output."
> -ss 7
> > -frames 4";
> >
> > Any ideas? The variables are all fine, (im using php), the images are
> > generated, jsut the seek doesnt seem to be working. Thanks,
> > John
> May be the video is broken? I have played some home made DVDs (weddings
> etc.) in which I cannot seek. Mplayer gives me negative number as
> remaining time and is coming back to 00:00:00 (time elapsed) from time
> to time, while the video is running smoothly.
> So can you play normally this video and seek in it?
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > MPlayer-users mailing list
> > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> > http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> MPlayer-users mailing list
> MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
>