Você pode querer instalar o pacote mplayer-resumer
. Isso permitirá que você retome um vídeo de onde parou. Quando terminar de assistir aos vídeos usando esse script de wrapper, você poderá excluí-los com segurança.
$ mplayer-resumer options path/to/file
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Watching 90 % of a video and stopping causes you to return to the beginning again the next time you watch it. Remembering where you were in the video and resuming at that position is a much nicer behavior for the user. By default, mplayer spits out timecode information that tells you where you are in the video, to the tenth of a second. Mplayer also supports a seek feature on the command-line. We can make use of these features to write an mplayer wrapper that will remember the last position in a video file and resume to it on playback.