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Monkeybus
Asked: 2019-11-22 23:03:35 +0800 CST

MPlayer command line start video at x position

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With MPlayer how do I start playing a video at x position?

Hello folks, so if I want to start MPlayer at x position, what would I do?

I have been ploughing through the man page and I cannot find it.

Must be: 

mplayer -<position I need> x name.of.video.mp4

Can someone point me in the right direction?

command-line bash video mplayer

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your best bet is to use the -ss xx option of MPlayer. The setting uses seconds and thus to start your video 60 seconds in the following would suffice:

    mplayer -ss 60 video.mp4

    If you were interested in transferring allegiance to mpv (as I have) you will find the mpv option --start is much more fully featured than MPlayer's -ss option...

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