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Is there a way to make FFmpeg seek faster to an end of file on a network share?
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Mar 15, 20261979 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm using ffmpeg to generate image previews from flv videos. The OS is Debian 5 and it's the apt version of ffmpeg. The flv files are located on a NAS share that is mounted as NFS. Getting the thumbnails from the beggining of the flvs is pretty fast but is very slow when seeking above 10 minutes in…
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os.system('ffmpeg -ss "%d" -i %s -an -r 1 -vframes 1 -bufsize 1835k -s 360x288 -f image2 -vcodec mjpeg -y "%s"'%(offset_seconds, video_file_path,…Unverified for your environment
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Fix for: Is there a way to make FFmpeg seek faster to an end of file on a network share?
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You've narrowed the problem down to the NFS mount. ffmpeg itself isn't changing its behavior 10 minutes into the input video -- if it did, you'd have noticed when you tried reading a video on local disk. I bet that installing and running ffmpeg on t…
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