[MPlayer-users] How to create a wav file with silence with MPlayer

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:06:16AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:01:29PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > It's probably a good thing that it doesn't work, instead of exhibiting
> > random behavior that you won't be able to rely on in the future.
> 
> I'd like to say that I am responsible for the change in behaviour of
> -frames. I asked about comments but got no really conclusive reply.
> The problem with the old implementation was that the behaviour was
> basically random, which created problems for people using e.g. -vf png.
> Now it (should) always could the number of frames output.
> Suggestions for improvement are still welcome though.

It would be nice if it could base its behavior on the number of
_decoded_ frames rather than the number output by the filter chain.
However mplayer's bad arch makes this very difficult so imo it's ok
as-is.

Rich