[MPlayer-users] Progress bar chart

[Alexander Strasser]

On 2019-05-13 20:46 -0400, Elijah wrote:
> Reimar <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 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.

Neat. I didn't think of using pausing_toggle to implement this.

It's bit non-obvious. I documented this trick in our Wiki:

  https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/wiki/MPlayerTipsAndTricks


> > Whether this works properly for all combinations
> > of videos and vos is admittedly a bit of a different
> > question.
>
> It works for my most common case, which is all I've tested: local files
> on disk displayed to local X11 screen. Even if it doesn't work for every
> case, this puts me far ahead of where I was.

FWIW worked fine with vo direct3d too.

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  Alexander