[MPlayer-users] Progress bar chart

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 01:04:11PM -0400, Elijah wrote:
> You know the bar chart of how far through a video you are that overlays
> when you use the skip forward / skip backward controls? How can I get
> that to display without skipping around? Ideally, it would display every
> time the video is paused.
>
> I'm currently using:
> MPlayer 1.2.1 (Debian), built with gcc-5.4.0 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
> but could be persuaded to change.

Check the documentation for keybinds/slave mode commands.
osd_show_progression
You can bind that to a key, maybe can even bind it together
with the pause functionality to the same key, try it out
(I don't remember all the details of what is possible myself)