Camera board • Re: [Help] Not able to seek rpicam-vid output videos

I think that on a Pi Zero 2W you have to say explicitly that you want it to use libav. See here.

If you don't do that, then you probably get an (unseekable) elementary H.264 bitstream, just with a misleading filename.

What are you using to play back the video?

Ok thanks for the info. I think I figured it out. It's just like @therealdavidp said it's just a h.264 posing as a full mp4 or mkv. Also it seems like you need to have ffmpeg installed to be able to use libav codec as option in raspicam-vid

Statistics: Posted by twostarl — Sat May 24, 2025 9:35 pm

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