[MPlayer-users] Slave mode and get_time_pos problems

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:07:56PM +0100, Nigel Arnold wrote:
[...]
> Play the movie using the above command line
> my script sends a get_time_pos, which returns the correct time, until about 
> 50-60% through the film and then it reverts back to 0 and counts upwards 
> again (the movie still playing)
> 
> Is this a bug or normal behaviour.

This is normal behaviour for MPEG files, the timestamps can reset at
arbitrary points, and MPlayer reports the time stamps in the file.

> Ideally, I need to get the current playback position in seconds, whilst the 
> dvd is playing.

Except that when this happens for DVDs you should just use -nocache

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger