[MPlayer-users] Problems with pausing_keep

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Robert Cummings wrote:
| This post can be ignored now. I developed a patch after looking at the
| code and understanding the problem :)
|
| Cheers,
| Rob.
|
|

I'm assuming this is a patch for mplayer and if so are you going to
release it. Several of us would like to see this problem fixed.

Kevin




| On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 15:23 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote:
|> Hi all,
|>
|> I searched the web and couldn't find the answer I want so I signed up to
|> this list. I've created a wrapper around mplayer in slave mode and I'm
|> probing mplayer for the current position once per second. The problem is
|> everytime I use the get_time_pos command the player unpauses if it was
|> paused. I found the solution was to prefix pausing_keep before the
|> command. This sort of works... except the player sneaks forward a single
|> frame now on every probe... which isn't really pausing. Short of hacking
|> the C code myself (which I will do if I have to), is there a way around
|> this feature? On a side question -- if anyone happens to know -- what is
|> the rationale for unpausing in the first place? Couldn't there be a
|> command-line flag to throttle the feature completely?
|>
|> Cheers,
|> Rob.


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