[MPlayer-users] byte position on mplayer exit (how to restart from that location)

Savchenko Andrew bircoph at list.ru
Thu Oct 6 18:36:23 CEST 2005


> I occasionally need to stop mplayer (completely not just pause)
> do something else then I want to start mplayer again at the current byte
> position from where I stopped it.
>
> I cannot do -ss time as it does not function correctly.
>
> How can I get the current byte position of whatever mplayer has opened?

Afaik, it is impossible 'cause you can't seek to random byte position, you can seek only to the nearest base frame using -ss option. Mpeg4 (or etc) isn't a true stream, this format has "base" frames, for only which you can seek.





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