[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] -idle , MPlayer idle loop...

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:56:16PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> > > Another, more general, thought: Is this option useful at all outside of
> > > slave mode?  Then why not make -slave imply -idle?
> > 
> > If anything, make -idle imply -slave, and, I'd rather not, let the user 
> > decide...
> 
> Exactly. It might be useful for presentation systems - just bind certain
> key to certain loadfile commands and every keypress will play a
> different file *g*
> Maybe stupid example, but yes even without -slave it might be useful.

IMO that's not stupid. It could be very useful for kiosk type setups.
Also it's nice even with single-file non-slave because the final frame
will remain visible after the movie ends (something people have
requested a lot). (BTW there's a bug in this with vo_mga -- it flips
page back to the second-to-last frame when the movie ends! :( )

Rich