On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 06:39:17PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: Content-Description: message body text

Sounds interesting..

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Envelope-to: diego@localhost Delivered-To: diego@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041218) From: tuttle <karl.wagener@ntlworld.com> To: diego@biurrun.de Subject: idea for mplayer Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:53:18 +0000

Hi, I just thought - how about being able to press a key while playing a movie to save its current settings as ~/.mplayer/movie_name.avi.conf ? Then just by opening with mplayer you will have correct aspect ratio etc. Alternatively, make an option to write any changes made to default as ~/.mplayer/movie_name.avi.conf automatically while playing. Pass this on if you think it is a new idea please. Thanks, Karl.

The reason it's not a good idea, IMO, is that it's impossible to override settings in $moviename.conf files. They're read and processed AFTER the command line is parsed, so if you have such a file, you have to manually delete it to override anything, and that's very confusing and unintuitive to users. Personally I would like to remove $moviename.conf support entirely unless we can overcome this obstacle... It's very bad if the .conf file is on a cdrom where you can't just rename it or such... Rich