[MPlayer-users] playlist suggestion

[Joey Parrish]

On 5/1/07, Robert Parker <theparkers.mailbox at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/05/07, Joey Parrish <joey.parrish at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Then I suppose it'll be an option which defaults to off.  May I
> > suggest -autoplaylist or -auto-playlist or some such?

> how would mplayer know what the playlist file extensions are ? or are
> you saying that the option would work like this

> $ mplayer -auto-playlist ext=ram,asx url  # tell mplayer what the list is
> and
> $ mplayer -auto-playlist url  # mplayer uses its own built-in list

No, not at all.  There will be no list of extensions given to MPlayer.
 If I write an m3u-style playlist and name it foo.bar, it will still
be detected as an m3u playlist.  It has nothing to do with the
extension.

--Joey