playing a specific interval of a video in mplayer using command line option

Question

I am using mplayer to play videos... I wanted to know if there are command line options to play a specific interval of a video in mplayer? For example, if I want to play a video

Answer 1

man mplayer

reveals:

-ss : Seek to given time position
-endpos <[[hh:]mm:]ss[.ms]|size[b|kb|mb]>: Stop at given time or byte position

so you should be able to do what you want by simple using:

mplayer -ss 56 -endpos 3