On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 14:46 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > In trying to grab a frame every 30 seconds (or every 900 frames - close > enough) > I see tc spending time 'skipping frames' - any way to get it to seek ahead > some number of bytes or something? (close, even for wide values of close, > would > be fine)
Not really; one of fundamental assumptions behind the design of transcode is that the source is a stream of data; so, seek is not allowed (in general). We'll see how (and when) relax this assumption in future releases. Bests, -- Francesco Romani // Ikitt [ Out of memory. ~ We wish to hold the whole sky, ~ But we never will. ]