[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] new option: -startpos (was "the seek to position -ss option does not really set a new playback start position")

[Uoti Urpala]

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 23:52 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> ok so I have been given some thoughts to this. Instead of modifying
> -ss, because I think its current way of doing is useful for some
> people, I made a new option. Anyway -ss is "seek to seconds", so
> semantically it just means that you seek, not that you change the
> start position. This is what -startpos will be then. ;)
> 
> So basically it just does the same as -ss except that it jails the
> lecture. So you cannot seek backwards. Note that it can be used along

This could be implemented based on the general timeline functionality I
added for Matroska ordered chapter support, without adding new cases to
the playback code. Your patch would also first start playback from the
wrong position and then seek to another.