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orschiro

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MPlayer closes at End of File

Hello guys,

MPlayer's normal behaviour is to exist the playback when it reaches the End of File. This is a bit annoying, especially when I watch or listen to a stream and MPlayer exists completely because the system is buffering not fast enough due to my slow internet connection.

How can I configure MPlayer that it stops at EOF, waits until buffering continued to some percent, and then play it again.

I hope it is clear what I'm trying to achieve though.

Best regards

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kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

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Re: MPlayer closes at End of File

What about -idle?

Ogion

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Registered: 2007-12-11

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Re: MPlayer closes at End of File

Also, for streams, try the to set the -cache option to something higher than normal.

Ogion

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davvil

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Registered: 2008-05-06

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Re: MPlayer closes at End of File

There is also a -loop option. For streams it may be useful.

karol

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Re: MPlayer closes at End of File

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19587 - coincidence?

orschiro

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Re: MPlayer closes at End of File

Hello guys,

I looked into all of you propositions but none of them suits to my need.

Simply all I want is that MPlayer still continues to buffer when I pause the playback. The current behaviour is that it stops buffering after I pause it and when I play it again only plays until it reaches EOF - not surprisingly since it hadn't buffered in the background.

Regards

Last edited by orschiro (2010-05-27 06:21:26)

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hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

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Re: MPlayer closes at End of File

Look at the bug report and update your system.

orschiro

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Re: MPlayer closes at End of File

Do I understand the bug report right that it's currently only fixed in the svn version?

I updated the regular version from the official repos but without any change yet.

Regards

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wonder

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Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: MPlayer closes at End of File

@orschiro we had downgraded to mplayer 31147-2 and a simple pacman -Syu will bring it.

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karol

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Re: MPlayer closes at End of File

For me adding '-loop 0' would work too - if the stream ends, mplayer automatically tries to reconnect so I get a second or two silence and than the music plays again.