[Libav-user] how to create seekable mkv using libavformat?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Jan Pohanka <xhpohanka at ...> writes:

> I'm muxing a raw h264 stream from hadrdware encoder to mkv using  
> libavformat library. The resulting file is playable, but not properly  
> seekable I'm testing it in ffplay - moving to certains times causes the  
> image to disappear or break and there are these warnings:
> [h264 @ 0x7f3298008500] Missing reference picture
> [h264 @ 0x7f3298008500] decode_slice_header error
> 
> I think that the problem does not lie in the encoded stream, 
> because when I try a following sequence on the file
> ffmpeg -i vtest.mkv -vcodec copy -f rawvideo vtest.h264
> ffmpeg -i vtest.h264 -vcodec copy vtest2.mkv
> the resulting vtest2.mkv is then seekable without any problems

What happens if you use ffmpeg to mux the hardware-generated 
h264 file into mkv:
$ ffmpeg -i hardware.h264 -vcodec copy test.mkv
Is the resulting file seekable?

Could you provide a file that does not allow keyframe-seeking?
I am curious if the decoding can be fixed.

Carl Eugen