[MPlayer-dev-eng] -endpos option in mplayer.c

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 10/30/05, Paul TT <paultt at hackerjournal.it> wrote:
> i've got the patch to get mplayer.c implement -endpos option ready to
> go...
>
> still 2 (3) questions...
>
> . what is better? play a number of seconds like -frames, which plays a
>   number of frames in total, without take care of forward/backward
>   seeking, _or_ consider endpos as last seconds to play,
>   i'll explain better the latter:
>     if endpos is 1:20 i'll play 1min 20sec, so with no ipnuts/seekings
>     from the user, starting at 0 i'll end at 1:20, starting at (-ss)
>     2:20, i'll stop at 3:40.
>     with user input/seekings, is it better to stop anyway at 3:40 or
>     play 1:20 as total time played (if i forward one min i'll stop at
>     4:40, for example)???????

Okay with me.


> . i dropped support in -endpos for mplayer to work with
>   number of bytes,  it seems useless and it would require an other
>   variable to contain the  progress, so maybe is too tricky add it.
>   it's ok this way or not?

Maybe you can forget about this for now, but if you do find a way to
support it later on, why not?

Guillaume


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