[MPlayer-users] Initially start with byte position then loop back to begining - how?

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:25:37AM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I initially wish to start my video indexed into a byte position iwth (-sb X)
> I also want to loop my video with (-loop 0) however once the video gets 
> to the
> end I want to ignore the start byte position and start back at 0 and loop...
> 
> How do I tell mplayer to ignore the -sb option on -loop 0 so on restart it
> begins back at 0?

Just play it as two files, only looping the second time...
mplayer foo.mpg -sb 12345 foo.mpg -loop 0

Rich