[MPlayer-users] better resolution

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:32:02PM -0600, Roger Pack wrote:
> Hello all.
> I noticed in the output while using mplayer:
> ex:
> 
> 
>   A:3600.2 V:3600.2 A-V:  0.010 ct: -0.261 374/371  8%  6% 39.5% 21 0
> 
> That "A: " and "V: " only have one decimal point of precision.  I
> would love if they had more, for more precise measuring. (ex: DVD's
> have 2 or 3 frames per tenth of a second, it' s hard to tell where the
> frame really is).
> 
> The line of code in question appears to be (mplayer.c)
> 
>         saddf(line, &pos, width, "A:%6.1f ", a_pos);
> 
> Also noticed that get_time_pos returns just one decimal point of precision.
> 
> Question: if I submitted a patch to show more precision, would it have
> a chance? If no, what if it were made optional (a command line
> parameter?)

There is already an -osd-fractions option. If you don't want the OSD I
guess applying its behaviour also to the status line might not be
completely unreasonable.