[MPlayer-advusers] dump movie configuration file feature request

[Diego Biurrun]

D Richard Felker III writes:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 06:39:17PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 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...

This is a bug that needs to get fixed.  The command line should always
come last.

Diego