[wplug] Mplayer -- remain open after playing avi?

[Brandon Kuczenski]

I am feeling proud of myself for having solved a couple of driver problems 
with mplayer, so I can now play AVI movies on my laptop.  However, there 
is one annoyance -- when the movie I'm watching is over, it vanishes 
abruptly.  is there a way to get mplayer to continue to display the last 
frame of the movie after playback is complete?

For that matter, is it possible to get mplayer to play a movie in a loop?  
I couldn't find any such option in the 'preferences' window.  There is a 
-loop argument but it needs passed on the command line, which seems 
annoying if I am running the graphical interface.

Any idea?

-Brandon