[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Do not block mplayer at rtsp eof

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:02:55PM -0700, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> It's been a long time since I used MPlayer, and I can't remember 
> whether or not you support seeking within a stream (for those streams 
> that support this).  If so, it would be unfortunate if you gave up 
> the ability for the user to seek backwards and replay (at least part 
> of) such a stream after reaching the end.  However, I agree that this 
> behavior would be incompatible with playlists.  (Perhaps you could 
> vary the behavior depending on whether or not the stream is part of a 
> (multi-element) playlist??  But anyway, I'll let you folks decide 
> which behavior you want to support...

I told you, MPlayer's behavior is always to close a file and move on
(terminate or move to next file) at EOF. If you want an option not to
do this, it needs to be global, not a special case for RTSP. I'm not
opposed to such an option (in fact it would be nice) but I am opposed
to streamtype-specific hacks and inconsistent behavior.

Rich