Re: can -c be made to seek?

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,

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