[MPlayer-users] Feature Request: Get OSD Time as a Slave Command

[mplayer]

ISSUE: 
The slave command get_time_pos returns the file timestamp, but for some file
formats the timestamp resets.  

SOLUTION (proposed): 
However, I noticed that the OSD time displayed is always good.  So why not
add a slave command 'get_osd_time' to expose the value the OSD is using to
display -- it appears to me that OSD just asks the demuxer for the current
time.

So this is what I think we'd need to add;

input.h
  MP_CMD_GET_OSD_TIME,

input.c
  { MP_CMD_GET_OSD_TIME, "get_osd_time", 0, { {-1,{0}} } },

command.c
  case MP_CMD_GET_OSD_TIME:
    mp_msg(MSGT_GLOBAL, MSGL_INFO, "ANS_OSD_TIME=%d\n", 
      demuxer_get_current_time(mpctx->demuxer));
    break;

If anyone could do this and release an updated windows binary package that
would be great!  I'm currently using the mplayer that comes with smplayer
"Sherpya-SVN-r30369-4.2.5".

FYI: Spent the better part of a week trying to get mplayer to compile in a
mingw environment on my windows XP development system.  Got as far as
mplayer compiling, but it does nothing, it sends a banner to stdout then
exits. So obviously I'm missing yet another library or option or whatever.

If anyone has a mingw environment that can successfully compile mplayer for
windows I'd really appreciate a 7z of your c:\mingw\ folder (assuming it's
all self contained?).  I'd be more than willing to make the changes and test
them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
JR