Re: can -c be made to seek?

Hi Carl,

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)
I switched to -c because I needed split-second accuracy, but if you 
don't, try --frame_interval. It may even be frame-accurate now.

transcode -q 0 -o $DDIR/$FIL.img -y im -F png -x ffmpeg,null -i 
$DDIR/$FIL.dv --frame_interval 900 2> /dev/null

If you try, let us know what performance you get.

Cheers,
Dave
>
> ++ transcode -Q 0 -o img/x -y im -F png -x dv,null -i x.dv -c 
> 0-1,900-901,1800-1801,2700-2701,3600-3601