:: Hi, :: :: > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] :: > :: > I hope this is not a "RTFM" (which I have diligently tried to do!) question. :: > :: > I have some short, experimental, research clips (mostly :: > raw/uncompressed .avi files) on which I wish to loop indefinately for :: > some visual experiments. I know about `-loop 0' but it is not doing :: > what I want. With `-loop 0', mplayer seems to "restart" at the end of :: > the clip which makes it (and the video sequence) flash annoyingly. Also :: > the display window is repositioned from where I moved it. :: :: mplayer -loop 0 filename (looping playlist) will restart every time, but :: mplayer filename -loop 0 (looping single file) won't. :: :: A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team Excellent! Even better than the -fixed-vo advice. But this introduces another problem. At the beginning of each loop, after the first run-through, "white bars" [|||||||||] get inserted in the playing video for half a second or so. I don't see an option to inhibit these. Is there a way to turn this off. Thanks so much for your help. (It goes without saying that MPlayer is just superb! Looks like it will be a wonderful tool for our research here at Sharp Laboratories (Sharp Corp.'s U.S. Research Laboratory). Dean S. Messing Display Algorithms & Visual Optimization Lab Information Systems Technologies Dept. Sharp Laboratories of America E-Mail: deanm@sharplabs.com