[Ffmpeg-cvslog] Re: r5468 - trunk/libavformat/mov.c

Baptiste Coudurier baptiste.coudurier
Tue Jun 20 11:22:40 CEST 2006


Hi

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> [...]
> 
> well, for the AVSEEK_FLAG_BACKWARD case id say that if the user wants
> timestamp t then we at least should seek so that the user will receive
> a keyframe in every stream before or at t ...
> 
> for a forward seek on stream s id say that we should at least ensure that
> the user gets a keyframe on every stream prior to the keyframe in s we
> select
> 
> these are just the rules which seems to make most sense when thinking
> about forward and backward seeking in a normal player, i doubt many demuxers
> in ffmpeg actually conform to them ... and maybe iam missing something
> and the rules actually arent ideal ...
> 
> also note that when we designed nut, rich and others suggested that seeking
> should actually be based on a user specified set of streams instead of
> streamless (stream_id == -1) or based on a single stream so that in case of
> very few keyframes on one stream we wouldnt have "problems" with the
> remaining streams
> 

I understand, and I experienced that. That version of mov_read_seek,
seeks in other streams according to sample found timestamp. Is that
version is preferred ?

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