[MPlayer-dev-eng] -endpos option in mplayer.c

[Paul TT]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:42:22 +0200
Oded Shimon <ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:25:51PM +0200, Paul TT wrote:
> > i'm patching mplayer.c to implement -endpos option...
> > what i've done up till now seems to work when endpos is relative to
a
> > time, just as endpos for mencoder. (i'll do some other tests before
> > posting a patch)
> > 
> > anyway, the question is: if i would like to make endpos work with
number
> > of bytes to read, is there a variable which contains read bytes or
do i
> > have to add such variable and count those bytes????
> 
> endpos in mplayer is generally just weird because of seeking, should
it be 
> total time played or until a certain time. anyway, doing it for bytes
is 
> really useless, you can't do it like you can do in mencoder, and in 
> mencoder it makes sense - it's bytes WRITTEN, not bytes read, there's
no 
> such thin as bytes written in mencoder. if you insist you want it, the
way 
> you'd do it is by comparing to sh_video->timer (see video_read_frame()
in 
> mplayer.c:2400), but i wouldn't really trust it.

that's exactly what i do now to stop at a certain amount of time read.
i've seen that in mencoder the number of bytes is the number of bytes
written.
i would like to implement endpos up to byte just to be complete against
mencoder...