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

[Michael Holland]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> Woops, sorry, I hit "send" too fast... If you wanna be able to seek in
> a file without bothering about the index, I'd say try to encode in
> MPEG2 with MPG container. Yes, it sucks at compressing well, but at
> least, it doesn't require an index.

Can you use mpeg4 in an mpeg stream?

I just tried "mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg foo.ps -o test.mpg"
had sync trouble. Lots of errors like:
ERROR: SCR: 71103029, APTS: 49397760, DELTA=-0.236

Is the original poster recording analogue or digital?