Bug#688800: mplayer2: can not seek wvc1 videos

[Reinhard Tartler]

tags 688800 fixed-upstream
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> This is a bug in the libavcodec VC-1 decoder. It outputs a frame from
> the old position after a seek flush. Actually, the codec object in
> vc1dec.c seems to be completely missing the needed ".flush" field entry.
>
> That it happens to work closer to normal with the internal demuxer is
> just a side effect of a different timing mode used with the old demuxer;
> the decoder misbehavior does not have the same effects in that case.

Upstream now has come up with a fix in form of this patch:
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=4dc8c8386eef942dba35c4f2fb3210e22b511a5b

I'm going to backport it to the next stable point release.

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regards,
    Reinhard