[FFmpeg-user] Replacement for showinfo's former "pos"?

[Moritz Barsnick]

Hi,

I'm looking for a replacement for what the "showinfo" filter used to be
able to display.

Before commit 27f8c9b27bce42a4a6a4c64e03fab769579c8683, filters got the
information of the byte position within a file. I used this information
from showinfo for this:

I am trying to truncate MPEG-TS files on my disk. I know the timestamp
of the last position I want to retain, so I did:

$ ffmpeg -ss <timestamp to truncate from> -i video.ts -map 0:v -vf showinfo -t 2 -f null -

and uses the "pos" information in a call to "truncate".

This info is no longer available. Are there any alternatives using
ffmpeg?

A bitstream filter would be just as good as filter, as there's little
need to actually decode the stream. And I noticed that struct AVPacket
still contains pos.

Thanks,
Moritz