[MPlayer-users] Skew between seek and get_time_pos

[Peter Seibel]

Phil Rhodes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, I've seen that happen. I seem to recall I figured out some sort of 
> correction for it, but it's a bit flaky on uncompressed versus compressed 
> media. Are you sure it isn't just seeking to the nearest keyframe?

Well, the seeking bit seems to work. At any rate, I can seek to a given 
time and then seek to one second earlier and the audio seems to back up 
a second.

> In my situation I was only using seek because set_time_pos didn't work - I 
> really don't think anyone much cares about slave mode. Almost nobody seems 
> to use it.

Bummmer. It's pretty handy for what I'm doing (controlling it from Emacs 
while transcribing recorded interviews) but it'd be a lot better if the 
get_time_pos returned answers that matched seek's behavior.

-Peter

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