[MPlayer-dev-eng] Per-file -loop option reset brokenness

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 21:43 +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> When using -loop as a per-file option it's implemented as a seek back to
> the start of the file, and the code also resets option variables when it
> does the seek. Resetting the variables like that in the middle of
> playback is wrong; it skips sanity checks which would normally be run in
> initialization code, and changing the values might also require running
> code.
> 
> Is it OK to simply remove that option reset functionality, or does
> someone rely on some part of it? If there are a few options that should
> reset in typical use then those could be handled. With the current
> architecture it is not practical to implement correct reset of all
> options.

If nobody here is aware of any current use which would rely on this
option-reset functionality I'll remove it soon and see if that makes any
users complain.