[MPlayer-users] How to tell how far through you are

[John Brown]

>The percent you see is the CPU percentage!

OK.


>The progress meter starts from 0 again ...

I do not understand what you mean. Perhaps it is because I do not have a 
Real Audio file to test.  If I want to seek 10 minutes into my Real Player 
movie, I use:

mplayer -ss 600 test.rm

and I let it play for a time, and then I quit. My status line looks like 
this:
A:   0.0 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.016 ct:  0.000   1/  1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
A: 603.8 V:602760.0 A-V:-602156.250 ct: -0.100   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
A: 603.9 V: 602.6 A-V:  1.260 ct: -0.096   3/  3 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
[more lines ...]
A: 606.3 V: 605.4 A-V:  0.975 ct:  0.200  71/ 71  2%  0%  0.4% 0 0

Exiting... (Quit)

mplayer -ss 900 test.tm gives:
A:   0.0 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.022 ct:  0.000   1/  1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
A: 901.0 V:900040.0 A-V:-899139.000 ct: -0.100   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
A: 901.1 V: 899.9 A-V:  1.198 ct: -0.096   3/  3 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
[more lines...]
A: 903.3 V: 902.4 A-V:  0.944 ct:  0.170  64/ 64  4%  0%  0.5% 0 0

Exiting... (Quit)

So in the first case, the movie started playing at 603.8 seconds (I wanted 
to started at 600), and I quit at 606.3 seconds, and in the second case, it 
started 901 instead of 900 and I quit at 903.3 seconds.

The accuracy of seeking depends on the keyframe interval, because MPlayer 
can only seek to a keyframe. But as I said, maybe none of this is relevant 
to a file that has no video.

Perhaps you should use MEncoder to convert your file to a format that is 
acceptable to the other programs that you mentioned.