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

[Andrew Savchenko]

On 28 Sep, 2006 12:14 mail at kraymer.de wrote:
> > On 28 Sep 2006, 01:32 mail at kraymer.de wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >
> > And if I have file with name "00:00:01" in the same directory? Such
> > file  name is unusual but acceptable. In this case this file will
> > be played,  so command will not work as expected in general. It
> > *is* a bug.
>
> Have you tried this?

Yes I have. And mplayer-r20001 plays the second file, here is command 
line:

mplayer Trailer-640x346-XviD-1.0beta2-HE_AAC_subtitled.mkv -endpos 
00:00:01

MPlayer plays both Trailer<...>.mkv and 00:00:01.

> I created an empty file with `touch "00:00:05"`, 
> but mplayer didn't try to open it..

Your error is in your file's content: mplayer just skiped an empty 
regular file. Rename some real movie and check again.

> Of course, all these only apply to trailing -endpos option, can we
> agree on this? If the filename is the last commandline parameter, all
> these things disappear.

Yes. That's why mplayer's behavior with trailing -endpos is a bug.
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