[MPlayer-users] Slave mode: brightness/contrast/volume from start of file?

[Reimar Doeffinger]

Hello,
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 05:18:13PM +0100, Phil Rhodes wrote:
> While I'm on a roll, a somewhat easier question - easier I suspect in that 
> it's probably a straight "no".
> 
> I've written code that allows me to fade-in audio and video by manipulating 
> brightness, saturation and volume. But in slave mode, mplayer seems to 
> discard these settings between files, so I have to load the file, then, if I 
> want it to fade in, I have to set the brightness to -100. This is ideally in 
> the wrong order; it means I see a flash-frame blip of the first few frames 
> of the file before mplayer acts on the set_brightness command, which is 
> unattractive. The same applies to my seeking to a point halfway through the 
> file - I always see the first few frames of the start of the file before the 
> command takes effect.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a workaround for this?

Have you tried simply setting the brightness to -100 via the commandline
option?

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger