[MPlayer-users] new feature possible?

[Alexander Roalter]

Andrew wrote:
> First, a "preemptive" apology for posting this here: I posted to Mplayer-devel but got no reply (perhaps because my post was not in Hungarian, but i didn't see a developers' list in English)
> 
> What i'd like to do with mplayer is to be able to log the current playing time and/or frame into a simple text file, with a key combination such as "Ctrl+J" or whatever keys are still available.
> 
> The practical application of this is to be able to create a simple data file with time markers, which could in turn be used by a script to split and manipulate video/audio files.
> 
> As it is, one can already PAUSE, then copy & paste the time shown, but I would like something even more efficient - something like:
> 
> 	mplayer -timemarkerfile ./my_segment_times.txt my_clip.mpg
> 
> Then press Ctrl+J (either during active playing or while paused), and have a new line bearing the timestamp appended to "my_segment_times.txt".
> 
> If I were to brave the coding myself, where in the source code would I begin to look?
> 
> Is there anyone out there who could produce this feature in a jiffy? (seems like it's not too demanding, but I really don't know how the mplayer code is structured to be able to assess this)
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Andrew
> 
Try
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html

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cheers,
Alex