Displaying counter in the main screen

[alexwilmac]

Hello,
I searched for the possibility of displaying the counter, either the time elapsed or the time remaining of the audio file that's playing directly in the main window, instead of the VLC logo and in big fonts.
As far as I know there is the possibility to show the current time (year, month, ....) but not the counter.
It would be useful in case you are far from the PC and you can't see the little counter on the bottom right of VLC.

Regards,
Alex

[VLC_help]

You can use time left with marquee filter. But you have to enable some visualization filter in that case.
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... mat_String

[alexwilmac]

Hi,
I tried but my complete inexperience with VLC produced just errors.
I create a link and added command options this way
"C:\Program Files (x86)\0000x86\MULTIMEDIALI\VLC\vlc.exe" -marq-marquee $H $M $S
but it didn't work.
If it's not asking too much, can you tell me the option string I have to use just to diplay the current hour, minute and second of the file played?
Thanks,
Alex

[VLC_help]

It should be something like

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vlc --sub-filter 'marq{marquee=$t($P%%),color=16776960}:marq{marquee=%H:%M:%S,position=6}' somevideo.avi

Unfortunately I don't have computer with VLC this week, so I can't provide you with better sample.