[MPlayer-users] suggestions for stopping mplayer and restarting where stopped

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:12:35PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> ...I thought that -sb, like -ss, would merely go to the nearest keyframe
> to the requested offset? And since there is no apparent way to
> determine, having stopped mid-playback, what byte position you were at
> before stopping anyway...

Having a method to dump the current byte position in the file could be
very useful, even for formats that don't support -sb. It's useful for
finding out where there's damage/corruption in a file if you want to
try manually repairing it with a hex editor.

Rich