[MPlayer-users] A bug in MPlayer slave mode ?? (get_percent_pos)

[RomulusPfeiffer]

Hi all,

I'm writing a console-frontend programm in Perl for MPlayer. I want to 
have a player mainly for listening music.

I proceed as follows:

I start mplayer over a pipe and I've got STDIN to read informations from 
MPlayer and STDOUT to send commands to MPlayer.
The problem is that the command:

get_percent_pos

returns always 0 until i do a seek like "seek 1\n" or whatever. Then the 
'get_percent_pos' command returns the correct percent value. But I have 
this problem ONLY with MP3 files. And that really sucks because I've 
implemented a progressbar which depends on the percent position and 
further, I use my program mainly with MP3 files. My workaround up to now 
is to do a "seek 0 2" directly after starting a new track but this is not 
really satisfying and sometimes one hears it also :(

I am pleased about everyone tap.

-romulus-