Re: [xine-devel] xine_play() precision

[Miguel F. <mi...@ce...>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 12:08, Mike Melanson wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2003, Miguel Freitas wrote:
> 
> > my suggestion for frame based seeking (mainly for use by encoding
> > frontends like enix, or even kino editor) would be to go to previous
> > keyframe before what user specified. then the frontend could get the
> > frames one at a time, skipping to the desired number. (frame number info
> > needs to be added to xine_video_frame_t)
> 
> 	Going to the keyframe before the offset/time requested is the
> policy that all of my seekable demuxers take. I'm not sure, but I think
> AVI goes to the first keyframe after which can be a bit problematic in my
> experience.

completely agreed. this is something i wanted to fix for some time, but
i keep forgetting ;)

besides, it's not guaranteed there will be a keyframe after the
requested position and, in that case, avi demuxer fails.

regards,

Miguel