[MPlayer-users] Incorrect time remaining in VBR OGMs

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 02:52:35PM +0000, Lord K wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> When playing an OGM movie which was encoded in 2-pass mode (possibly also 
> in 1-pass encoded files but I have not tried any) the OSD fails to report 
> the time remaining in the film, it just displays "01:14:01 / 00:00:00 (0%)" 
> etc.
> 
> Obviously mplayer can correctly estimate the length as the progress bar 
> used when skipping backwards and forwards works correctly. It just appears 

Nope, the progress bar is measured in bytes. The total length has to
be measured in time.

Rich