[FFmpeg-user] Fast seeking formats for storing live video

[Roger Pack]

> It seems to me that maybe the live video doesn't have the pointers that a
> processed video does.  I'm not sure how this gop/keyframes stuff looks like
> in real life, but how are they written during a live video feed?

You could try running
ffprobe -show_packets

on the file "before" and "after" and see if it seems to imply some
difference...or try something besides avi...
-r