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

[film123 at gmail.com]

Hi Ingo.
Thanks for the reply.

I tried the -fixed-vo trick, and it initially worked, but then I was
getting remains of the last video frame along with a new video in a
small window (instead of fullscreen) on the screen.

Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks,
Barry

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Ingo Brückl <ib at wupperonline.de> wrote:
> Oliver Seitz wrote on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:51:07 +0200:
>
>> 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.
>
> There seems to be a bug with the _NETWM_STATE_FULLSCREEN hint when starting
> playback in -fs. The size of the second video (normal size) isn't set, which
> means that switching in the second video from fullscreen to normal size leads
> to a wrongly sized window (size of first video).
>
> Ingo
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