[MPlayer-users] resume playback after closing mplayer

[Nico Sabbi]

Paul Bartlett wrote:

>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
>  
>

mplayer doesn't seek reliably (not even almost) in mpeg* files
 
 
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