[MPlayer-users] [BUG] Endpos time mistakenly taken as another filename

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> When using the -endpos option to specify a limit to play/encode,
> mplayer/mencoder thinks the endpos argument is another file
> and after playing/encoding the specified amount of time, it
> exits with the following message:
>
> Playing 00:00:01.
> File not found: '00:00:01'
> Failed to open 00:00:01.

For me, the command works as expected, only the message is misleading..
For example, let mplayer play the file til endpos 00:00:05, you'll get
both five seconds of video and the .. message. So imo it's not a bug,
because it works. Of course, it is not really perfect either..
> The command is "mplayer a.avi -endpos 00:00:01".
> Mplayer version is the latest one from SVN.

Just an observation: If you append the file name after -endpos, the error
message disappears..

Sebastian