Please give users the possibility of viewing the time in frames

[inventatoru@…]

Currently, (g)mplayer (-gui) displays time as hours, minutes and seconds. For people who create and edit subtitles, like me, it is extremely useful to know the current position in the movie in frames.

My version of mplayer is 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1.

A possible fix would be that, when the user clicks on the time label, the display would change to frames.

Please answer, even if you don't have a fix, I'll fix it personally if I really have to; just don't keep me waiting for nothing.

Thank you so much for being there for us!

[compn]

mplayer does not currently have a way to keep track in frames (or even seek to frame). please add this to mplayer and send a patch! :)

when you add it, make sure to add it as a property so it can be used in the get/set/step format
​http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt

also there are some programs for subtitling that use mplayer, maybe they are helpful ?
​http://www.jubler.org/
​http://ksubtile.sourceforge.net/

[compn]

actually i forgot, in the status line it reports what frame you are on, as long as you dont seek i guess :)
​http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#id2630632
Q:
What is the meaning of the numbers on the status line?

A:
Example:
A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57/57 41% 0% 2.6% 0 4 49% 1.00x

A: 2.1

audio position in seconds
V: 2.2

video position in seconds
A-V: -0.167

audio-video difference in seconds (delay)
ct: 0.042

total A-V sync correction done
57/57

frames played/decoded (counting from last seek)