[MPlayer-users] Progress bar chart

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 02:49:21PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> On 2019-05-11 00:21 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 01:04:11PM -0400, Elijah wrote:
> > > You know the bar chart of how far through a video you are that overlays
> > > when you use the skip forward / skip backward controls? How can I get
> > > that to display without skipping around? Ideally, it would display every
> > > time the video is paused.
> > >
> > > I'm currently using:
> > > MPlayer 1.2.1 (Debian), built with gcc-5.4.0 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
> > > but could be persuaded to change.
> >
> > Check the documentation for keybinds/slave mode commands.
> > osd_show_progression
> > You can bind that to a key, maybe can even bind it together
> > with the pause functionality to the same key, try it out
> > (I don't remember all the details of what is possible myself)
>
> I fail to see how one could bind multiple commands or a command list
> to a single key. I tried to bind osd_show_progression to a different
> key so one could use it while paused, but neither with pausing_keep
> nor pausing_keep_force did it end up well.

Maybe not in general, but adding to input.conf
b pausing_toggle osd_show_progression
for me made the b key a pause key that would also
show progress, which seems to be what was asked.
Whether this works properly for all combinations
of videos and vos is admittedly a bit of a different
question.