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I need to play video files by the ffplay (or the ffmpeg if is it possible) and display current play time.

Please tell me how can I see the current play time (as H:M:S) with ffplay?

OS = MS Windows 7

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rgbtestsrc filter

ffplay -vf "drawtext=text='%{pts\:hms}':box=1:x=(w-tw)/2:y=h-(2*lh)" input.mp4

  • If your build does not support fontconfig, then you'll have to add the fontfile option with the path to the font. See drawtext filter docs for more info.

  • In Windows you may have to first set the FONTCONFIG_PATH variable (and/or other related variables).

  • You can add boxborderw=4 if you want more padding in the box, but you'll need a relatively recent build. See the FFmpeg Download page.

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  • I could only get a second timecode using %{pts}, but not hh:mm:ss via {pts:hms}, not until I got all my quoting exactly correct (single, double, backslash), exactly as shown; i.e., ffplay -vf "...text='{pts\:hms}' ..."
    – michael
    Commented Nov 13, 2017 at 5:50
  • Is it possible to remove the miliseconds and let only HH:MM:SS?
    – Ricardo Bohner
    Commented Nov 1, 2021 at 16:20
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    @RicardoBohner stackoverflow.com/a/67409424
    – llogan
    Commented Nov 1, 2021 at 18:07
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For more options, there's this tip, direct from FFMPEG on Twitter:

-vf "drawtext=text='%{pts\:hms}':fontsize=48:fontcolor=white:box=1:boxborderw=6:[email protected]:x=(w-text_w)/2:y=h-text_h-20"
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How to use drawtext displays the current localtime on windows

ffmpeg.exe -re -i "c:\aaa.avi" -vf drawtext="fontfile=simhei.ttf:fontsize=14:fontcolor=white:shadowcolor=black:shadowx=2:shadowy=1:x=8:y=8:text='???'" -q 5 -s 720*405 -aspect 16:9 -r 15 -threads 4 -vcodec flv -acodec libmp3lame -ar 44100 -ab 64k -ac 2 -f flv "rtmp://127.0.0.1/aaa/flv"

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  • Thanks ,But I get this error : RTMP_Connect0, failed to connect socket. 10061 (Unknown error) rtmp://127.0.0.1/aaa/flv: Unknown error occurred
    – user476650
    Commented Sep 5, 2015 at 12:40
  • Also I need to display current play time of video.( no current localtime)
    – user476650
    Commented Sep 5, 2015 at 12:47
  • Did you follow the link "Maybe this helps" in the comment?
    – Gio_sof
    Commented Sep 5, 2015 at 16:10
  • Yes I did , but it doesn't work for me.
    – user476650
    Commented Sep 5, 2015 at 18:34

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