[MPlayer-users] How many seconds for -ss command

[Alexander Roalter]

Jack Smith wrote:
> A while back someone asked about using the -ss command to restart
> mplayer and I never noticed an answer.  If they still haven't figured
> it out, here's how I do it.  When I run mplayer I get a lot of
> messages in the window I run it from.  If I break out (say with a "q")
> one of the last looks like this
> 
> A:1216.7 V:1216.7 A-V:  0.008 ct:  0.112 29172/29172  5%  0%  0.6% 3 0
> 
> 1216 is the parameter to use with the -ss command.
> 
On DVDs (or mpeg streams in general) it might as well look as this:

 > A:6.7 V:6.7 A-V:  0.008 ct:  0.112 29172/29172  5%  0%  0.6% 3 0

Which means, after 29172 Frames played (@23,997fps = 1216 seconds), the
timestamp (which is reported with A: and V:) can easily be reset to zero 
every now and then, in which case you're out of luck.

Almost all of my DVDs show this behavior with a counter reset at least 
once. With AVIs or other containers I did not notice this behavior.

As the timestamp is reported 'as-it-is' from the medium, this isn't also 
likely to change in the near future, and seeking beyond the first reset 
point is impossible, sadly.

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cheers,
Alex