[MPlayer-users] UNCHANGED: Seeking fails for FLV files when using `-novideo'

[Michael Witten]

On Sun, 2011-04-10, Michael Witten <mfwitten at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given an FLV file, `m.flv', seeking fails when running in `-novideo' mode:
>
>  mplayer -novideo m.flv
>
> Trying to seek with, say, the arrow keys causes the audio to be played
> from the beginning of the stream instead (it starts over). Playing
> `m.flv' without `-novideo' does *not* have this problem. Also,
> converting to an MP4 container fixes the problem:
>
>  ffmpeg -i m.flv -acodec copy -vcodec copy m.mp4
>
> Sincerely,
> Michael Witten