[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD PLayback with -ss option

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:15:59PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > If you check a few DVDs, you'll find that timestamp often resets to 0
> > at some or all chapter boundaries, or after the opening logos, etc. In
> > fact, it can reset at ANY point. So timestamp is not at all
> > reliable/useful for seeking (or for anything except maintaining a/v
> > sync) in mpeg.
> 
> I don't know why someone wants that -ss feature for DVDs, but I want
> it to stop a DVD at some point and than start at exact this
> position. Maybe it is possible to get the current position in the file
> from mplayer somewhere and than set it at the new startup? It would be
> great for bookmarking positions and for Freevo to make it possible to
> set another audio stream.

This is definitely possible, all that's needed is for mplayer to have
a means of dumping the byte offset in the file. Then you can use -sb
to resume where you left off. It would also be a useful feature for
locating corruption in files...

Rich