Re: [MPlayer-users] How to tell how far through you are

[Kichigai Mentat <kichigai@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Apr 1, 2006, at 08.00, Raphael wrote:

> Sorry I am clearly not explaining myself well. I don't know where  
> in the file I want to chop it. I want to browse through it by  
> skipping along and then note down the position. The file is 13  
> hours long so I really don't want to sit there fore 13 hours  
> listening to it. I can then use that information to do the  
> chopping. -ss and -sb don't help me solve this problem unless I use  
> them as part of  some sort of binary search procedure.
>
> What mplayer could do for me is correctly keep track of the  
> position as I skip through it with the right arrow. Sadly it  
> doesn't at present even with -idx.

Odd, because I thought that the progress meter worked fine. Could you  
upload a sample file for us to work from?

> I have ended up converting it to mp3 and working with that.

That sounds... extraneous. Have you tried using any other media  
players? How about VLC?

> Raphael
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