How can I Display a Progress Bar in mplayer?

Question

Is there a way to display a progress bar in mplayer (running without a gui)?

(I'm launching the mplayer command from the terminal like $ mplayer video.avi .)

Or is there simply any kind of percentage information like total video length, relation to already played chunk, or something like this?

thanks.:)

score 24 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 27 '18 at 18:19

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Ok. I figured out that one can press o button to toggle OSD (On-Screen Display) and that shows video length/played length.

edited Oct 27 '18 at 18:19

answered Feb 02 '11 at 14:32

Stann

score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 27 '18 at 13:50

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You can press P (that is, Shift+p) to temporarily display the progress bar and elapsed time/total time (it disappears after about 1 second).

edited Oct 27 '18 at 13:50

David Foerster

answered Feb 22 '12 at 16:54

gohu

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 20 '15 at 17:45

2

You can also use command line switch -osdlevel <0-3>

or put it into ~/.mplayer/config:

[default]
osdlevel = 2

answered Jul 20 '15 at 17:45

pevik

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