Dear Community!

I've been using mplayer for 5 years. The higher mplayer versions have been released the slower seeking in MPEG2/MPEG4 streams got. In mplayer 1.0rc1 released in 2006 seeking in any MPEG2/MPEG4 stream (DVD VOB, DVB recording etc.) is smooth, but higher versions (mplayer 1.0rc2 or the one I use now Sherpya-SVN-r29355-4.5.0) almost don't show any frame at all when seeking. I guess mplayer 1.0rc2 and above don't loop through B frames (which causes the blocky transiton between frames when seeking - shown below at the test). I don't understand why it was good for developers to completely remove this kind of feature release by release. I hope this has something to do with an option (e.g. -lavdopts) which default value was changed during the releases.

Attached image shows testing MPEG-2: This sequence of still images were created specifying -vo png, I pressed the right arrow (seeking forwards) continuously till the movie clip ended. Finally collected stills with IrfanView Thumbnails. It shows that mplayer 1.0rc1 does the job well. Sherpya-SVN-r29355-4.5.0 didn't produce any images during seeking. I don't want to use older mplayer versions due to bugs and format-incompatiblity issues, but I really really miss this feature. Same case at DivX/XviD. Is there some workaround to resurrect fast seeking?

Thanks
Zooya