[vlc] Re: problem with --rc-show-pos parameter

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote :
> Hello
> 
> I'd like to use vlc in a console only mode, in which it will display
> the current position inthe tram in it's output. For this reason I
> tried interface rc and the command like option "--rc-show-pos" in
> order to display it's position.
> 
> The help command says:
> 
> --rc-show-pos, --no-rc-show-pos
>                                  Show stream position (default disabled)
>           Show the current position in seconds within the stream from
> time to time. (default
>           disabled)
> 
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't work as promised. In the demo matroska
> video I have ( the infamus mewmew-vorbis-ssa.mkv which is XVid with
> OGG for sound and embedded SSA subtitles) I can only see the file
> position in percentage format).
> Even worse, in an avi I have { RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 576 x
> 304, ~30 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz) }
> it does not display the time position at all.
> 

Well, that is the way this feature was implemented : show the the
current position in percent of the whole file, each time an integer
percentage is reached... I shouldn't be too hard to add a feature to 
display the current position in the stream (in seconds if you want) at
each interface loop execution, but that is not implemented at the
moment (mainly because I think that is not one of the expected feature
of the rc interface). The ncurses interface already provides a way to
have informations about the stream playback from console...

-- 
BigBen

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