[MPlayer-users] Is there a way to keep mplayer running between videos so it doesn't stop and display desktop background?

[Oliver Seitz]

On 26.08.2011 20:01, film123 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello.
>
> In Ubuntu 10.10 on an Acer 3600 Revo Ion, I am playing videos from a
> playlist with mplayer in slave mode.
>
> After each video has finished playing (between videos), the desktop
> background is visible for a fraction of a second.

You're already using -idle which keeps mplayer running at the end of the 
video.

Maybe -fixed-vo is what you're looking for.

Greets,
Kiste