[MPlayer-users] How to seek a file that is being generated

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/12/06, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a tv capture card and I want to do the following:
>
> 1) start recording
> 2) during the commercials, seek forward, and if I miss something, seek
> backward.
>
> But I can't do that, because mencoder only puts the index in the file when
> it finishes recording, and even if I use the -idx (or -forceidx) option,
> mplayer only builds the index of the part of the video that is already
> recorded when mplayer starts.
>
> So, how can I do this? I have already read a lot of documentation.

If you're generating an AVI file, you need to regenerate the index
each time you wanna play a file that's being written:

mplayer -idx in.avi

G
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