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

Using mpv, a fork of MPlayer:

# specify start and length
mpv --start=3:20 --length=10 

# specifying end
mpv --start=30 --end=40 

# specifying end from end
mpv --start=80 --end=-90 

More at mpv manual.