[MPlayer-users] resume playback after closing mplayer

[Paul Bartlett]

I currently use an application to playback dvr-ms, mpg2 and ts (transport
stream) files that has the ability to remember the point that each was
closed so that when you start it again it resumes playback from that point.
 
avi (xvid) files, however, cannot be played back using this different player
and in anycase mplayer does a much better job of rendering these videos and
so I would like to use it for my playback.  But I can't find out how to get
it to resume playback.
 
After reading through the documentation, I have found the -ss option that
allows playback to be started at any given time, but that is only half the
battle, I still need to know at what point that playback was ceased.
 
Is there some way that mplayer can retun the value of the number of seconds
where it was stopped, or even if there is a way that it can output to the
console where it is up to every few seconds so that I can trap it with a
script?
 
(I am running Windows XP Pro SP2)
 
thanks,
Paul