command: make time properties unavailable if timestamp is unknown

Let's hope this doesn't confuse client API users too much. It's still
the best solution to get rid of corner cases where it actually return
the wrong timestamp on start, and then suddenly jump.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/player/command.c b/player/command.c
index 0b19b20b6c..1bcf0c47e3 100644
--- a/player/command.c
+++ b/player/command.c
@@ -484,6 +484,9 @@ static int mp_property_stream_end(void *ctx, struct m_property *prop,
 // Assumes prop is the type of the actual property.
 static int property_time(int action, void *arg, double time)
 {
+    if (time == MP_NOPTS_VALUE)
+        return M_PROPERTY_UNAVAILABLE;
+
     const struct m_option time_type = {.type = CONF_TYPE_TIME};
     switch (action) {
     case M_PROPERTY_GET:
@@ -652,6 +655,9 @@ static bool time_remaining(MPContext *mpctx, double *remaining)
     double len = get_time_length(mpctx);
     double playback = get_playback_time(mpctx);
 
+    if (playback == MP_NOPTS_VALUE)
+        return false;
+
     *remaining = len - playback;
 
     return len >= 0;