- IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at [2015-04-20 05:07]:
On 2015-04-19 22:08, Peter P. wrote:
- IOhannes zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at [2015-04-19 02:52]:
Am 18. April 2015 21:30:20 MESZ, schrieb "Peter P." peterparker@fastmail.com:
mpeg3video_seek: frame accurate seeking without a table of contents is no longer supported. Use mpeg3toc <mpeg file> <table of contents> to generate a table of contents and load the table of contents instead.
what to do?
How about "Use mpeg3toc <mpeg file> <table of contents>" ?
Yes, of course everyone could do that. But why is Gem no longer able to play alea.mpg by default,
because Gem does not do a low-level decoding of the mpg files. instead it delegates the job to one of multiple backends.
now Gem has two backends that are specialised on decoding mpeg files (the other backends are more generic regarding formats):
- libMPEG: this is *very* old and afaik not available in any current
distribution; so of very limited use.
- libMPEG3: this is what you are trying to use. libMPEG3 used to be
directly support flame accurate seeking (which is what Gem uses), but no longer does so. instead you are now asked to pregenerate a TOC-file.
Thank you for this wonderful and very helpful explanation!
btw, there is no "default" backend: Gem uses what is available. in practice i would recommend the GMERLIN-backend.
I did switch as well, and that playes the alea.mpg file well without problems.
Thank you again IOhannes, P