[MPlayer-users] no end-of-file stop please

[Sam Liddicott]

Here's a feature request;

for mplayer not to exit if I seek to the end of file, but to just stop 
seeking
It needs some trickery and hence discussion here;

My guess is:

We probably still want it to quit when it plays to end of file, but not 
right after it finishes seeking to the end of file.
So I guess if someone seeks close to the end of file (or does any seek?) 
and then end of file is reached, it does an implicit pause for a couple 
of seconds giving the person the chance to seek backwards again and find 
the spot they were seeking for.  Then after the implicit pause times out 
it plays (to the end of the file).

Further after pausing for a couple of seonds it may find the file has 
grown and keep playing;  so this would also be good as a follow mode; I 
sometimes get one instance of mplayer to record to file and a minute or 
so later start another to read from the same file thus giving me 
tivo-like live pausing of the programme.

I guess this is not the time to talk about tivo-like circular buffer 
files, but maybe another day.

Sam