[MPlayer-users] -ss odd case

[Ivo]

On Thursday 15 November 2007 18:01, Jerry Geis wrote:
> Gents,
>
> Some time back a took a clip of my star wars 3 dvd.
> I started at time sequenece 850 and ended at 950
>
> So now when I tried to play the clip and I did "-ss 5" thinking
> I was starting 10 seconds into my clip ----- no I start at the beginning.
> Odd I thought...
>
> Then I noticed the time sequence printing was at 850 - where my clip
> began. So I said let me do "-ss 860" thinking that would work.
>
> It did not, mplayer exists. I guess thinking the video is done. seeked
> past the end.
>
> Something is not in sync there.

I had the same issue yesterday when I tried to seek into some VOB file that 
started with timestamps > 4000. The problem was solved by using the lavf 
demuxer.

mplayer -demuxer lavf -ss 10 somefile

--Ivo