[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: changing file mid-playback

[Tobias Diedrich]

David Toso wrote:

> I am trying to figure out if it would be possible to start playing one MPEG
> file, then at some point later during it's playback, switch to another MPEG 
> file, without of course completely restarting mplayer. I don't know what the 
> file will be in advance (but will play the rotating symlinks game if that is 
> an option :-).
[...]
> Also, assuming that this would work, can I avoid uninit & reinit of any other
> subsystems? (I can guarantee that movies will all be of the same encoding
> and codec -- most likely MPEG1).

The OSD-menu code can open a new file from within mplayer. And with
-fixed-vo it works very nicely.
I can imagine mplayer being a very nice settop-box frontend when the
OSD-menu code gets more refined. :-)

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