[MPlayer-users] resume playback after closing mplayer

[Kichigai Mentat]

Sorry to top-post. But, doesn't XBMC use MPlayer? And if so, what  
option does it use for bookmarking? That works quite well. If someone  
could explain how that works, why not just use that?

On Jul 13, 2005, at 05.12, 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
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