[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] A commandline option to start from any item in the playlist

[Vlad Seryakov]

Hello,

I am working on media center that uses mplayer as external player and so integrating in -slave mode is my priority and focus. 
One feature that might be useful not just for me is to resume playback from previous position, with one file -ss is all you need but in case of playlist this gets complicated. Currently i intercept startup messages and issue pt_step command and then seek but it is not reliable and too complicated.
I thought about adding command line option like -playlist-start that will start playback from given item in the playlist. 
I could not find such feature in all playlist formats so before i start messing with mplayer.c, i'd like to ask if this is worth the effort?

Thanks