[MPlayer-users] Counter in upper left of screen

[Georg Prager]

> When I run mplayer, it displays a counter in
> the upper left part of the picture, telling me where I am in the movie.
> It's distracting; how can I make it go away? I tried "-quiet", but
> apparently this is not one of the things that that option controls.

man mplayer
-osdlevel <0-2> (MPLAYER only)
              Specifies which mode the OSD should  start  in  (0:
              none, 1: seek, 2: seek+timer) (default = 2)

while playing a file you can change it with the 'o'-key