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

[squeegy-wplug at squeegy.org]

The app I run to get mplayer to do what you want is gmplayer.  it is a gui frontend.

> How about asking on one of the lists here:
> 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mailinglists.html
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> SFK
> 
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 at 2:04pm, the following was brought forth by Brandon...:
> 
> > > 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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