[MPlayer-advusers] dump movie configuration file feature request

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 06:39:17PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
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> Sounds interesting..
> 

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> 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