[MPlayer-users] Dump sound with mplayer never exit on recent revision

[Armelius Cameron]

On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 01:49:25 pm Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:27:02AM -0400, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > I tried running the following, and with recent mplayer, this command
> > never exit. In the end, mplayer just sits there but consuming a lot of
> > CPU.
> > 
> > With 1.0RC4, the same command exit cleanly after it's done. Is this a bug
> > ?
> 
> Works fine (or at least as intended) for me, however:
> > $ /usr/local/mplayer/r33226/bin/mplayer "/scratch/movie.avi" -noconfig
> > all - loop 1 -vc null -vo null -nocache -channels 2 -ao
> > pcm:fast:file=test2.wav
> 
> If it works (crashes for some formats) use -novideo instead of "-vc null
> -vo null". In addition this will also still try to play video with the
> correct timing. In rc4 it would just quit when audio is done, but in
> general that isn't desireable behaviour.
> Using -benchmark should improve that.

I don't understand, why is quitting when audio is done not desirable ? 
Right now other than quitting it just sits there using up CPU. How does one 
supposed to know if it's done and tell it to quit, e.g. in a script ?

AC