On Nov 9, 2007 Nico Sabbi wrote:

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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, 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.

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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