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lateralus

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Registered: 2008-10-06

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[SOLVED] Player which can seek by 5 (or less) seconds

Hi!

I'm looking for a player which will allow me to seek the video by 5 (or less) seconds. I didn't find an appropriate option in xine. There's a config option for mplayer, which theoretically allows to override the default seek time, but it seems that it supports only values greater than 10 seconds, which is unsatisfying. If there's some player which will support that function, please let me know.

Cheers.

Last edited by lateralus (2008-10-15 09:20:31)

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Player which can seek by 5 (or less) seconds

You can set mplayer seek time to less than 5. Some formats will give problems though, like mp4. When rewinding 2 seconds e.g. it will often run into a point where it can't get past. But that's just with mp4 I believe.

ezzetabi

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Re: [SOLVED] Player which can seek by 5 (or less) seconds

really? how can I change mplayer seek time?

test1000

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Re: [SOLVED] Player which can seek by 5 (or less) seconds

you can also use the -> . <- character to go frame by frame in the video...

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lateralus

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Registered: 2008-10-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Player which can seek by 5 (or less) seconds

You can set mplayer seek time to less than 5. Some formats will give problems though, like mp4. When rewinding 2 seconds e.g. it will often run into a point where it can't get past. But that's just with mp4 I believe.

And mp4 is happened to be a format of the files in which I need this precise seeking
But nevermind, I totally forgot about vlc, and it has all functions that I need (seeks by about 3 seconds, even in mp4).

Thanks anyway, cheers.

Procyon

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Re: [SOLVED] Player which can seek by 5 (or less) seconds

@lateralus: So that's why you said it couldn't. Good to hear you solved the problem

@ezzetabi: "~/.mplayer/input.conf" can take things like "LEFT seek -2"