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

[Brandon Kuczenski]

> Try using kmplayer (kde's front end for mplayer)
> It has a config menu with the options you are looking.
> 
> -Bob

I have RTFM (at least, some of it -- it's enormous) and searched the web, 
and I haven't found any way to get mplayer to do what I want.  I was 
hoping someone on this list had some experience?

My ideal movie player would do this:
 - open a movie and wait to play it until I clicked, or pressed the space 
bar, or something
 - remain showing either the first frame or the last frame of the movie on 
the screen after the movie is complete
 - if I click on it (or press space bar or whatever) again after it's 
done, play again.

mplayer does none of these things, and I haven't been able to determine
(through considerable trial and error) how to make it do so.  Instead, it
starts playing my (very brief) movie immediately, and after it's done,
flashes to the 'mplayer' splash screen, which is just an advertisement of
its failures, as far as I'm concerned.

Furthermore, running mplayer with the -loop # option (which would be a
-barely- acceptable workaround) fails.  Upon completion of the first
runthrough, it switches to a black screen.

I would be shocked if mplayer could not be made to do what I want, since 
it seems to be a very mature product and I don't think my requirements are 
at all unusual (doesn't every other movie player do that?).  But I can't 
figure it out.

Little help?

-Brandon



> 
> On Thursday 22 April 2004 01:23 am, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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