[MPlayer-users] How to tell how far through you are

[Raphael]

John Brown wrote:
>
>> From: Raphael <mencoder at lesshaste.plus.com>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a 13 hour long read real audio dump and I want to chop off the 
>> beginning up to some point in the file...
> [cut]
>>
>> a) If I use Right Arrow to skip forward it resets the progress indicator
>>
>> "A:   1.2 (01.1) of 50011.0 (13:53:31.0) 95.0% "
>
>
> If you do not want to listen to the whole file, try using -ss to seek 
> into the file. Then when you reach the spot, just quit. The status 
> line will show the position in seconds. The percentage looks wrong, 
> but if you really need to know the percentage instead of the position 
> in seconds, you can calculate it yourself.
>
The percent you see is the CPU percentage!  I could try some sort of 
binary search using -idx -ss you are right. The progress meter starts 
from 0 again so you have to get it just right or get your stop watch 
out.  As -idx appears to be necessary I was wondering if it would be 
possible for it not to reset the progress meter. I think that is the 
current behaviour with avi files.


Raphael