[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Slave Mode Protocol seek command

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Fri Nov 7 12:58:39 CET 2003


Alban Bedel writes:
 > Hi Konstantinos Karydas,
 > on Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:06:33 +0200 you wrote:
 > > > All I could find in the docs was this:
 > > > 
 > > > seek <value> [type=<0/\:1/\:2>]
 > > >         Seek to some place in the movie.
 > > >         Type 0 is a relative seek of +/\:- <value> seconds.
 > > >         Type 1 seek to <value> % in the movie.
 > > >         Type 2 is a seek to an absolute position of <value> seconds.
 > > > 
 > > > Now, seek type 0 is the only one that seems to work correctly.
 > > > 
 > > > Running a command such as "seek +10 type=0" works correctly
 > > > but nothing else. Every time I perform a seek of type 1 it seems to
 > > > behave as type 0; also for type 2.
 > 
 > try "seek +10 1" or "seek 10 2"
 > 
 > The name like type= in the docs are only used as reference. So one
 > can easily guess what this argument do. However the command sent should
 > only contain the argument values separated by spaces.
 > The doc should probably be looked at by a specialist to at least make
 > this clear.

No need for a specialist here, the documentation is simply wrong, the
right entry would be 

  seek <value> [0|1|2]
          Seek to some place in the movie.
          0 is a relative seek of +/- <value> seconds.
          1 seek to <value> % in the movie.
          2 is a seek to an absolute position of <value> seconds.

if the second parameter is optional.  Is this correct?

Diego



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