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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?


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Ok. I figured out that one can press o button to toggle OSD and that shows video length/played length.

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You can press P (that is, Shift+p) to display the progress bar and elapsed time/total time.

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