[MPlayer-dev-eng] A bug in MPlayer slave mode ?? (get_percent_pos)

[attila]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:14:27PM +0100, RomulusPfeiffer wrote:
> I'm writing a console-frontend programm in Perl for MPlayer. I want to 
> have a player mainly for listening music.
> 
> I proceed as follows:
> 
> I start mplayer in slave mode over a pipe and I get STDIN to read 
> informations from MPlayer and STDOUT to send commands to MPlayer.
> The problem is that the command:
> 
> get_percent_pos
> 
> returns always 0 until i do a seek like "seek 1\n" or whatever. Then the 
> 'get_percent_pos' command returns the correct percent value. But I have 
> this problem ONLY with MP3 files. And that really sucks because I've 
> implemented a progressbar which depends on the percent position and 
> further, I use my program mainly with MP3 files. My workaround up to now 
> is to do a "seek 0 2" or "seek -1" or whatever directly after starting a 
> new track but this is not really satisfying and sometimes one hears it 
> also :(
> I am pleased about everyone tap.
> 
> And another thing:
> Is it much work to add some functions to slave mode like 'get_time_pos' 
> (which returns the current position in seconds) and get_played_file (which 
> returns the file that is now playing) ?
> That would be really nice if someone would add these functions.

Did someone adress this problems ?

			Attila Kinali