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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 20 Dec 2011, at 08:15, Michael Witten <mfwitten at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

If you can, try the same thing with ffplay (-vn instead of -novideo).
I think this should be an FFmpeg bug.
Also note that -vc null -vo null should have a similar effect to -novideo but might avoid this issue.