SMPlayer Support Forum

Hello,

I'm working on SMPlayer to use for a project of mine, and I've noticed that the slider/internal clocks/etc go crazy when playing DVDs. Once one gets past, say, 50 minutes, the slider and timers all reset. I realize that this is because of reading the time information from mplayer (where it gets all broken up), but I was wondering if someone is tackling this problem. Is there a way to make an internal timer that keeps a true movie time (and to 0.1 second precision or better)? Is anyone else working on this problem?

Thanks,
ReiCow

I've successfully implemented a patch for mplayer (with the help of the mplayer community) which should enable a proper working seekbar. I've added a property to mplayer (used in slave mode via get_property):

enter:
get_property stream_time_pos

receive:
ANS_stream_time_pos=32.867001

The time given is in seconds. The property has the benefit that it does NOT reset during DVD playback as get_time_pos (or get_property time_pos) does.

Utilizing this for the seekbar will properly track where one is in a dvd.

Hope this helps!

This is included in mplayer as of revision 31795.

Cheers,
ReiCow

That's good news

Although for me it would have been better if that time would be printed in the status line. Querying for a property will require more changes in the code.

You could request (or create a patch) that there be a command line option when run for mplayer to display the stream time on the status line instead of the get_time_pos time...

Though that may be more work than using the call & response in smplayer.. I don't know.

Cheers,
ReiCow

Yeah, just before putting in my code.. they modified the configure file and now I can't configure mplayer unless I disable yasm... hopefully they fix that.

It has nothing to do with my code, I swear!

Cheers,
ReiCow