2014-04-01, 08:34
(2014-04-01, 02:16)popcornmix Wrote: I'm not sure if this is the same with the original (larger than 500MB) file, but this file has a broken index which means seeking doesn't work (even with xbmc on windows).
When (on Windows) you resume from 3 minutes, it does start, but quite slowly. I think because seeking doesn't work, it is actually reading the 3 minutes worth of frames and discarding them.
On a PC that is feasible. On the Pi, that might be very slow.
Does seeking work with the full length file?
Yes I can seek in the full-size movie, but only with omxplayer (where resuming also works fine).
With dvdplayer, when starting from beginning (so that I have video) seeking will result in a static/frozen image with the audio continuing from the point that I have seeked to (which is probably similar to the resuming problem, where you get the audio but no video). So yes seeking kind of works, but only for audio and not video. I can't actually reproduce this behaviour with the 500MB sample, however, as seeking with dvdplayer will work (sort of, it doesn't freeze the video anyway, and only sometimes seeks forwards) - maybe the shorter index (or broken index) is an advantage here. Hmm.
Maybe it's just a duff rip? If so, please don't bother spending any more time on this!
