[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] A commandline option to start from any item in the playlist

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:08:59PM -0400, Vlad Seryakov wrote:
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> On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:14 PM, compn wrote:
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> > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:52:59 -0400, Vlad Seryakov wrote:
> >> I thought about adding command line option like -playlist-start that will start playback from given item in the playlist. 
> > 
> > you could modify pt_step to accept absolute values e.g. pt_step 15 ?
> > or make it a pt_skip or something
> > 
> > if you are making your own frontend, why not just keep your own
> > external playlist and just feed mplayer with it one file at a time ?
> > 
> 
> I do keep my own playlist and tried this approach, there is usually a noticeable delay between files, time to catch EOF, send new file, starting new playback.

You could just have always one item enqueued... If that's currently hard, I guess changes
to make this simpler would be welcome.
I am against a command-line option for this kind of thing which I think almost no-one really needs/wants.
Extending the slave interface in simple, obvious ways probably is always welcome, anything
beyond that needs reasoning why it can't be done with the existing commands and what the
problems are.