Hi all,

I currently encountered a problem in my software, where I am trying to seek 
backwards to a random keyframe in an xvid encoded video. For some reason when I 
seek to the same timestamp in AV_TIME_BASE units a couple of times, the time 
after the seek, queried by av_gettime() is never the same.

For seeking I use the following call:

av_seek_frame(videoFormat_->getAVFormatContext(), -1, timestamp, 
AVSEEK_FLAG_BACKWARD);

This is a comparison of the seeked values (the timestamp value above) and the 
values av_gettime returns:

searched: 960000 actual: 1295230664051371
searched: 960000 actual: 1295230664054287
searched: 960000 actual: 1295230664056488
searched: 960000 actual: 1295230664058355
searched: 960000 actual: 1295230664060223
searched: 960000 actual: 1295230664061738
searched: 480000 actual: 1295230664063235
searched: 480000 actual: 1295230664066660
searched: 480000 actual: 1295230664070496

Note that a seek to a different keyframe actually seems to seek to almost the 
same timestamp in the video.

As a matter of fact, independent to where I seek in the video, the next frame 
encoded is the first frame in the video, whereas I am currently trying to seek 
and return the keyframes only (the decoder gets flushed before the seek and 
encode part).

I use the following ffmpeg build (since it is been used in a production 
environment (in osx, win and linux version) we didn't want to upgrade to a 
newer version until needed):

FFmpeg version SVN-r22726, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Mar 29 2010 19:16:02 with gcc 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --enable-libmp3lame --enable-shared 
--enable-libfaad --disable-mmx --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-pthreads 
--enable-libxvid --extra-cflags=-I/opt/local/include 
--extra-ldflags=-L/opt/local/lib --arch=i386
  libavutil     50.13. 0 / 50.13. 0
  libavcodec    52.62. 0 / 52.62. 0
  libavformat   52.59. 0 / 52.59. 0
  libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
  libswscale     0.10. 0 /  0.10. 0
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder

Did anybody already encounter this problem?
Could this be a problem that is fixed in one of the newer libav versions?

Thank you for your help
Herbert Grasberger
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