[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH PROPOSAL] New -skip/-noskip flag for mplayer.

[Joey Parrish]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:39:48AM -0700, Brett Kosinski wrote:
> MPlayer, when it's decoding, has this habit of not blitting duplicate
> frames, for obvious reasons.  However, for certain output drivers (eg,
> yuv4mpeg), this is undesireable, since the user likely wants the stream
> outputted unmolested.  This patch creates a new -skip/-noskip flag, like
> that found in mencoder, to enable/disable this behaviour (with the default
> being enabled).

I believe that this is the reason that VOCTRL_DUPLICATE_FRAME was made.
I had this same problem with vo_gif89a (missing duplicated frames,
wrong output framerate at times, etc.) but it was fixed by adding
VOCTRL_DUPLICATE_FRAME support to control().

It would seem that the correct way would be to add this support to
the special vo's that are missing it.  I've noticed that
vo_yuv4mpeg already has this.  Are you sure that this particular vo
is giving you this problem?

--Joey