[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] A commandline option to start from any item in the playlist

[Vlad Seryakov]

On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:14 PM, compn wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:52:59 -0400, Vlad Seryakov wrote:
>> I thought about adding command line option like -playlist-start that will start playback from given item in the playlist. 
> 
> you could modify pt_step to accept absolute values e.g. pt_step 15 ?
> or make it a pt_skip or something
> 
> if you are making your own frontend, why not just keep your own
> external playlist and just feed mplayer with it one file at a time ?
> 

I do keep my own playlist and tried this approach, there is usually a noticeable delay between files, time to catch EOF, send new file, starting new playback. I will do it but thought making a little option could be a better approach for those who embed mplayer into UI frontends.