On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:57:34AM -0400, Dennis Nezic wrote: > Ffplay is worse -- it can't seek backwards when it's too close to the > beginning at all ("error while seeking") -- and same thing near the end > -- often all seeking will mysteriously stop working if such "invalid > seeks" are attempted. It would be best to report it against FFmpeg, since that is where the actual bug/problem is if ffplay has issues as well.