[MPlayer-dev-eng] Wait after finish playing

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 3/28/06, stefanic_rok at siol.net <stefanic_rok at siol.net> wrote:
> Have a question if mplayer itself can do this:
>
> When the player finishes working on a file, it would normally quit, but is it possible in any way for it to be in a knid of "pause" mode waiting to recieve a command for playing a new file or a command to quit itself...
>
> Thank you,
> Rok

man mplayer
/-idle

You'll get:

-idle (also see -slave)
  Makes MPlayer wait idly instead of quitting when there is no file to
play.  Mostly useful  in  slave  mode where MPlayer can be controlled
through input commands.

Guillaume
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