[MPlayer-users] playlist file syntax

[Jack]

Carl Karsten wrote:

> 3. A way to reference DVD's.  right now dvd://1 works, but it relies 
> on the disk being in what mplayer sees as -dvd-device.  If I ever get 
> that 10 terabyte HD and copy all my DVD's into subdirs, I am not sure 
> there is a good way to reference foo/video_ts in a playlist.
>
I have an idea.  I can't imagine any filename that would start with 
"/////", can you?  What if mplayer took playlist lines that start with 
/////, and read them as options to be applied to the preceding file?  So 
you could have a playlist like

foo.avi
dvd://1
///// dvd-device=/mnt/reki/fightclub aid=129
Radiohead - Creep.mpeg

or something.  I might use that.  Can't say I've had a need for it yet, 
but I can see it being useful.

-jack