[MPlayer-users] Disable audio when using "." to step forward in a movie

[Ilja Sekler]

On 16.02.2009 19:59, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:47:52PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
>>> The reason why disabling sound during '.' does not make much
>>> sense is because 1) it is simply implemented as a unpause, pause
>>> command
>> 
>> Can it be inplemented as mute, unpause, pause, unmute instead?
> 
> Well, you can have that by pressing 'm' to mute. It will not change 
> anything concerning the original issue though (muting means it is 
> possible to unmute again at any time, thus audio must be decoded and
> A-V sync kept).

It is really embarrassing that I didn't try such an obvious thing
earlier, but muting the sound _before_ pressing "." for the first time
seems to be a viable workaround for -ao pulse (pulseaudio won't crash
then). As stated above, it doesn't help for -ao alsa, unfortunately.

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Regards

Ilja