[MPlayer-users] Small feature request

Michael Waters stonin at rogers.com
Tue Nov 19 23:22:06 CET 2002


On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 23:04 +0100, Ulrich 'Q' Spoerlein wrote:
> first of all i have to say that mplayer is a
> kick-ass-top-notch-movie-player!!! Thousand Thanks for Coding this
> i-eat-all-media-formats-you-through-at-me-beast!.

i think so too.  :)

> Then to my small feature wish ;)
> 
> The "timer" on the OSD showing only the time elapsed is not _that_ useful
> IMHO. it would be cool to have a "elapsed/total" time display, that way you
> know how long the movie will take.
> 
> Another feature worth discussing is some sort of "playlist skipping".
> Imagine having downloaded some small clips from the internet, and you want
> to watch them all. 'mplayer *.mpg', easy enough. the "bad" thing is, that
> you can't skip _between_ movies. mapping the (n)ext and (p)revious keys to
> "play next movie specified on cmd line" or "play previous movie on cmd
> line" would be _very_very_ cool.

I think this is already possible:
< and >             backward/forward in playlist




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