[MPlayer-users] Seek and chapter

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Thursday 08 November 2007 23:53:55 Olivier Rolland ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> With some older version of mplayer, it was possible to mix -ss and
> -chapter so that the DVD title starts playing after some time from
> a chapter number. For example, to start playing 30 seconds after
> the begining of chapter 2, I used :
>
> $ mplayer -chapter 2 -ss 30 dvd://1
>
> Now, with 1.0rc2, it always starts playing 30 seconds after the
> begining of the DVD. Is there some way to get the previous
> behaviour ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Olivier

I find it unlikely that it ever worked that way - at least reliably -
anyway now it's not possible (although it's easy to add the relative
code). A quick workaround is:
$ mplayer -identify|grep -i chapter
$ mplayer -ss YOURTIME