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

[Raphael]

John Brown wrote:
>> The percent you see is the CPU percentage!
>
> OK.
>
>
>> The progress meter starts from 0 again ...
>
> I do not understand what you mean. Perhaps it is because I do not have 
> a Real Audio file to test.  If I want to seek 10 minutes into my Real 
> Player movie, I use:
>
> mplayer -ss 600 test.rm
>
> and I let it play for a time, and then I quit. My status line looks 
> like this:
> A:   0.0 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.016 ct:  0.000   1/  1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
> A: 603.8 V:602760.0 A-V:-602156.250 ct: -0.100   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
> A: 603.9 V: 602.6 A-V:  1.260 ct: -0.096   3/  3 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
> [more lines ...]
> A: 606.3 V: 605.4 A-V:  0.975 ct:  0.200  71/ 71  2%  0%  0.4% 0 0
>
> Exiting... (Quit)
>
> mplayer -ss 900 test.tm gives:
> A:   0.0 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.022 ct:  0.000   1/  1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
> A: 901.0 V:900040.0 A-V:-899139.000 ct: -0.100   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
> A: 901.1 V: 899.9 A-V:  1.198 ct: -0.096   3/  3 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
> [more lines...]
> A: 903.3 V: 902.4 A-V:  0.944 ct:  0.170  64/ 64  4%  0%  0.5% 0 0
>
> Exiting... (Quit)
>
> So in the first case, the movie started playing at 603.8 seconds (I 
> wanted to started at 600), and I quit at 606.3 seconds, and in the 
> second case, it started 901 instead of 900 and I quit at 903.3 seconds.
>
> The accuracy of seeking depends on the keyframe interval, because 
> MPlayer can only seek to a keyframe. But as I said, maybe none of this 
> is relevant to a file that has no video.
>
> Perhaps you should use MEncoder to convert your file to a format that 
> is acceptable to the other programs that you mentioned.
>
>
> _______
I don't know where to seek to. The point is that I would like to skip 
through it until I hear the recorded program change.    If I do -idx -ss 
then I will have to either very lucky to find roughly the right place or 
do a binary search to find the right place.  If I try to skip with the 
right arrow I lose the timing info again.

Raphael