On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:54 AM, John Stebbins <[email protected]> wrote: > Another alternative is libav supplies a helper function that does this for > you. The API for such a helper would have a parameter to set the seek > window. The advantage to libav providing a helper function for this is > libav has more information than the app in many cases in the form of an > index. There may be keyframes closer to the desired seek position than the > window limit. libav could seek directly to the closest keyframe to the > desired position through the index. The application can not do this and > would always have to seek first to the outer limit of it's desired window > and then read from that point onward.
I think a function along those lines would be incredibly useful. --Michael _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
