[MPlayer-users] Seek and chapter

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Friday 09 November 2007 14:52:47 Olivier Rolland ha scritto:
> On Nov 9, 2007 Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > > > 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
>
> In the end, this is exactely what I want to achieve. But as long as
> seeking in a DVD title isn't reliable at all, 

who said it? seeking in dvd _is_ quite reliable
because mplayer will use the time map stored in the ifo files

> I used to find in 
> which chapter YOURTIME belonged and the starting time of this
> chapter (CHAPTERTIME). I then only had to seek to CHAPTERTIME -
> YOURTIME from the begining of the chapter.


same as above: -ss works equally well when playing dvd:// streams
(but not the vob files)

>
> > > Unfortunately, this does not work reliably with a DVD !
> >
> > depends on the dvd. How far is the final position offset
> > from the one you specified?
>
> It really depends. It can be any time from the begining to the end
> of the title.
>
> Olivier

post an example