On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 04:28:31PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > The update to FFmpeg 4.2 has introduced a regression in MPlayer. For (at > least) the ubiquitous H.264 videos in MKV containers, seeking in MPlayer > is broken, e.g. when jumping back and forth with the arrow keys. Effects > are desynchronized faulty video and failure to seek. This appears to > affect the parts of the video file beyond 2GB, seeking below is fine. > MPlayer prints warnings like > [matroska,webm @ 0x801b86f40]Element at 0x81e78160 ending at 0x81ff3e32 > exceeds containing master element ending at 0x7e2ea500 Skimming mplayer(1) I could not find out quickly how to seek so far.
FWIW, mpv(1) works flawlessly seeking around in a 13.5G MKV container with H.264 video on my X230 - this includes starting the video and immediately seeking to the last few percents. Can you tell me how to seek in mplayer and also try reproducing it with mpv?
