[MPlayer-users] using the -sb option

Jerry Geis geisj at pagestation.com
Tue Nov 13 16:30:55 CET 2007


>
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:45:52 -0500
> Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users>> wrote:
>
> >/ I am trying to use the seek to byte location (-sb)
> />/ to restart a video (mp4) at the point I stopped it.
> /
> You should simply use -ss instead.  -sb is only useful for very specific
> cases, generally debugging.  You can't just input any number, and expect
> the video to play.

RC,

Thanks, I played a little and -ss seems to work.

I was getting the -sb X position by the demuxer_st  -> filepos
value. This was the current position.

Where do I get the time index in seconds?

Thanks,

Jerry



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