On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 18:14 +0100, Barnabas Hajas wrote: > Example image: http://kepfeltoltes.hu/100103/flatt1_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.png > > Attached image shows testing MPEG-2: This sequence of still images > were created specifying -vo png, I pressed the right arrow (seeking > forwards) continuously till the movie clip ended. Finally collected > stills with IrfanView Thumbnails. It shows that mplayer 1.0rc1 does > the job well. SVN-r29355-4.5.0 didn't produce any images during > seeking. I don't want to use older mplayer versions due to bugs and > format-incompatiblity issues, but I really really miss this feature. > Same case at DivX/XviD. Is there some workaround to resurrect fast > seeking? Try compiling MPlayer from git (use git://repo.or.cz/mplayer-build.git). That should show an image immediately after every seek. Unlike the above screenshot the images should be accurate; this makes generating them somewhat slower, but unless your system is really slow I think it should be an improvement.
