[MPlayer-users] Feature request

[j.a.l]

Henric Andersson wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
>>Henric Andersson wrote:
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>>>I've seen some patches that add a progress indicator, which shows how
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> much
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>>>(in percentage) of the file that has been played. Will such a patch be
>>>incorperated into the official mplayer? It would be useful for us who
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> run
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>>>mplayer via -slave and want to give some progress feedback.
>>
>>obviously you miss the part talking how these hack where bad ( among one
>>of mine ) and mplayer need a rewrite of demuxer to enable that.
>>A+
> 
> 
> I was afraid you'd say that :-( ... But, doesn't the gui of mplayer have
> this? Atleast, the progress indication? If so, how can that be?
> 

I had a look at each hack and we did the same thing : copy / paste the 
code used by the gui + some improvement, but again, isn't good, do not 
work right with every codec, etc... ( and in fact, percent / time are 
not linear, percent isn't taken from time set ). You could have a look 
at patch provided by other front-end.