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demux_mkv very long seek fix The seek code searching for the closest position in the index used "int64_t min_diff=0xFFFFFFFL" as the initial "further from the goal than any real alternative" value. The unit is milliseconds so seeks more than about 75 hours past the end of the file would fail to recognize the last index position as the best match. This was triggered in practice by chapter seek code which apparently uses a seek of 1000000000 seconds forward to mean "seek to the end". The practical effect was that trying to seek to the next chapter in a file without chapters made MPlayer block until it finished reading the file from the current position to the end. Fixed by increasing the initial value from FFFFFFF to FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

MPlayer's Dump Stream Formats
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Designed by Alex & Arpi

The file starts with a variable size header:
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32-bit	Stream format fourcc (MPVS or MPAS)
	MPVS = MPlayer Video Stream
	MPAS = MPlayer Audio Stream
8-bit	Demuxer type (AVI,MOV,ASF,REAL,...)
8-bit	Flags (marks  dumped headers)
	Values: 0x1:  WAVEFORMATEX
		0x2:  Audio extra codec data
		0x4:  BITMAPINFOHEADER
		0x8:  QT's ImageDesc
		0x16: indicates 32-bit chunk size before every data chunk
16-bit	Lenght of headers

There's strict rule in the follow-up of the codec-headers.
Depending on flags,

Data chunks:
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32-bit	Optional 32-bit chunk size
...	Data