mplayer, shortcut, change input.conf doesn't work

Fdhvdu · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2015 Posts: 10

Hi, I want to watch movie today.
However, I find the shortcut that I have modified doesn't work.

My /etc/mplayer/input.conf

EmaRsk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 158 Location: Italy

Please could you stop using silly colour/font formatting? It's annoying.

Now, re you saying that with one video seek is 3s and with another it's 10s? Then you already have the answer: the settings are read correctly, but the particular combination of encoding settings for that video doesn't allow the decoder to reliably jump less than 10s.
Vlc can't have anything to do with this, anyway.

Fdhvdu · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2015 Posts: 10

Sorry about that, I just want to mark the points.

Also, the settings doesn't load correctly.
On 4/8, I didn't copy /etc/mplayer/input.conf to ~/.mplayer/input.conf.
I merely used /etc/mplayer/input.conf directly, and it worked pretty good when I watched movie.
At that time, the seek time was 3.
(Forget the two different movie, both of then have same seek time. Taken 3 has same behavior as The Imitation Game.)

Somehow, when I watched movie on 4/14, the seek time changed.
It become 10.
But I don't change /etc/mplayer/input.conf.

(Even though I make it empty, the seek time is 10. 10 is default seek time in mplayer.
Not only seek time but also full of other settings work in default.)

According to man page, I

EmaRsk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 158 Location: Italy

Try to set it bigger and see if it works. For me, setting it to 2 gives me skips of 5s, but setting it to 20 gives skips of 20s as it should.

From my understanding (which could be utterly wrong) I think that mplayer can only seek to a keyframe. If in your videos you have a keyframe every 10s, that is the minimum seek time.

EmaRsk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 158 Location: Italy

It's the same with mpv, but mpv has a "--hr-seek=yes" option to enable more precise inter-keyframe seeking.
I don't think mplayer has a similar option, I didn't find any in the manual.

Fdhvdu · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2015 Posts: 10

It's like what you say, if I change the seek time higher than 10, it will work correctly.
But it's strange..., why do I could have 3 seek time on 4/8?
(Even though I watch that movie with 3 seek time now, it still work in 10.
But with higher seek time than 10, it works great.
Something must changed, but I don't know what is that.)

Thank you for replying.