[MPlayer-users] FPS shown on screen?

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:28:54 -0400
Rich Felker wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 01:23:21AM -0700, RC wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:45:02 +1200
> > Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz> wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a way to get the current FPS displayed in mplayer?
> > 
> > Nope.  You could probably parse the status line if you really need that
> > info.
> 
> Huh? There's no such thing as "current fps" in the status line because
> there's no such thing at all. Apparently the person asking the
> question is confused about the difference between a movie and a video
> game, I think...
> 
> Rich

On reflection, you are right.

Maybe he meant "what number of frames is it actually NOT dropping" -
this was in the context of a HDTV h.264 file.


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Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>