[MPlayer-dev-eng] [Patch] info command: show progress bar and elapsed/total time

[Hugo Chargois]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Hugo Chargois <hugo.chargois at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The command shows the progress bar and time elapsed/total time.
> I missed it a lot because there were only two ways to know where you
> were in a movie (well, to my knowledge at least): either seek back
> then forward (or the other way round) to catch a glance at the
> progress bar, or press 'o' to go through osd modes, one of them
> displaying the elapsed/total info.
> This is of course not optimal at all, the seek method is very
> disruptive, and the other one requires to press o multiple times.
> Moreover, they don't show the same info, and I think both the progress
> bar and times are useful.
> With this patch a unique command shows both progress bar and times.
>
> I called it 'info' and not 'progression' because maybe it could evolve
> into something that would show some other useful info (filename,
> etc.), and because 'p' is bound to pause and 'i' to nothing by
> default, and I like easy to remember bindings :) But maybe you could
> find a more appropriate name.
>
> This is my first time playing with mplayer's code so maybe there are
> more elegant ways to do that, but that works like a charm with me.
> I hope you find it useful.
>
> Hugo.


Sooo... No reply in one week.
Does nobody think this is useful?

Hugo.