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

[Vlad Seryakov]

On Aug 20, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:08:59PM -0400, Vlad Seryakov wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:14 PM, compn wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
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Agree, this option has no value, it works well in slave mode and loadfile