[MPlayer-users] goes from stopped to playing upon leaving fullscreen

[wm4]

On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:00:46 +0100
Oliver Seitz <info at vtnd.de> wrote:

> MPlayer exits the pause state on lots of occasions, like when
> changeing the volume or doing a seek.
> 
> If fullscreen mode is switched on or off, the new output buffer needs
> to be filled. The frame which is already displayed is not cached. So
> a frame has to be decoded to be displayed. The easiest way to do this
> is to exit pause mode.

mplayer2 can switch fullscreen and do other things without unpausing,
and without framestepping.