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Sorry I mean h264 encoded video in a matroska container. I was in a bit of rush with that response, excuse me

let's say it's an x264 video format

For some time now I've been trying to build a little application (which I will explain later on), and I'm trying to figure out the inner workings of decoding video. So now I'm curious how VLC handles seeking in network streams. From what I understand is that it needs some header information before i...

Xvfb?

Looks interesting, will read upon it a bit more

I have a video file of which I want to take several screenshots on my headless debian box. (It's actually a VM). Currently I'm using this command: vlc --vout dummy --rate 1 --video-filter scene --start-time 900 --stop-time 901 --scene-format png --scene-ratio 24 --scene-prefix snap --scene-path ~/ v...