[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer -identify with ogm files

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 01:32:26PM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> >Nope, a shortcoming of the Ogm file format (or the mplayer demuxer -
> >depends on the point of view). You'd have to seek to the very last page,
> >get it's timestamp, and then you'd have the duration (probably! The Ogg
> >specs allow concatenating Ogg files with a simple "cat 1.ogg 2.ogg >
> >3.ogg", so the last timestamp might not belong to the first file...),
> >but this is not implemented.
> 
> I've wondered about that myself. Actually, it seems that several of the 
> MPlayer demuxers don't return correct values. I've often played a DVD 
> and seen the OSD show something like "0:10:30/0:05:0". Is the issue with 
> OGGs that they don't have global indexes like AVIs or MKVs and no 
> absolute timestamps like MPEGs? Could such a thing be added while being 

ROFL, absolute timestamps in mpeg?!?! Check that DVD again... :((

Rich