[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add loop option to ffplay

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Saturday 2010-03-20 08:53:16 +0100, Robert Kr?ger encoded:
> 
> On 19.03.2010, at 21:07, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 04:56:53PM +0100, Robert Kr?ger wrote:
> >> 
> >> OK, now to the correct list, sorry.
> >> 
> >> The following patch adds a -loop option to ffplay, which I find
> >> very handy when reviewing raw footage.
> >> 
> >> Provided this is generally accepted, there is the question how to
> >> treat the conflict between autoexit and loop. One could change
> >> this from OPT_BOOL to a function which in both cases aborts with
> >> an error because these two things contradict or could output a
> >> warning telling the user that only one will be used or it could
> >> just do one of the two things (which is what is implemented in
> >> this patch but probably not the most user-friendly).
> >> 
> >> Let me know which one it shall be and I will modify the patch
> >> accordingly.
> > 
> > make loop take an argument that specifies how oftten too loop and
> > afterwards exist if autoexit is there 
> > 
> 
> and not allow the user to specify to loop indefinitely other than
> with a high number?

loop will take a number as argument, when count == loop -> exit if
autoexit, a negative value may mean "loop forever", in the latter case
autoexit would be just ignored.

Regards.
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