[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Background video when playing audio-only data

[Benjamin Zores]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:37:35 +0200
Alban Bedel <albeu at free.fr> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> some users requested such thing as beeing able to use the menu while
> playing an audio file. This patch add an option (-bgvideo) with wich
> you can select a file to play as background (for audio only). In this
> mode audio have priority, so we go to the next file when the audio is
> finished. There is no A/V sync, when the video go to end it automaticly
> loop to the begining and -frames can e used to make the video shorter.
> Comments ??
> 	Albeu

Indeed, this looks really usefull for audio only streams.

'Got another request ... ;-)
It could be nice to also some items in the menu in order to display ID3 tags for
MP3/Ogg streams for example.

But seems to be more complicated to add such features ;-(

Benjamin