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

[Raphael]

Kichigai Mentat wrote:
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> On Apr 1, 2006, at 08.00, Raphael wrote:
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>> Sorry I am clearly not explaining myself well. I don't know where in 
>> the file I want to chop it. I want to browse through it by skipping 
>> along and then note down the position. The file is 13 hours long so I 
>> really don't want to sit there fore 13 hours listening to it. I can 
>> then use that information to do the chopping. -ss and -sb don't help 
>> me solve this problem unless I use them as part of  some sort of 
>> binary search procedure.
>>
>> What mplayer could do for me is correctly keep track of the position 
>> as I skip through it with the right arrow. Sadly it doesn't at 
>> present even with -idx.
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> Odd, because I thought that the progress meter worked fine. Could you 
> upload a sample file for us to work from?
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http://www.lesshaste.plus.com/test.dump



Raphael