[MPlayer-users] Re: Pause/Resume?

[Andreas Mair]

Hi,

> Yeah, would be nice to have...
> But this is a lot easier to do in VDR because it simply writes a
> "resume.vdr" file containing the last position to the directory
> where the movie is stored. 

Well, MPlayer could do so too. Writing a <filename>.resume should be no 
problem. Maybe it could save it in MPlayer's shared files folder, but I think 
it should do that only if
a) the user asks to (e.g. via configure option)
b) it can't write to the played file's folder
c) it plays DVDs/VCDs
In that case those files should be delete someday...
On the other hand I wouldn't make it the default: there should be an option to 
use this feature and to play from the beginning and to resume from the 
previous stopped position.

> Doing this would be bit more difficult on a DVD ;-)

Sure, but not impossible ;-)

Regards,
Andreas



> On Wednesday 07 August 2002 09:01, Andreas Mair wrote:
>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wonder if there's a feature in MPlayer to stop playing a file/DVD/VCD and
>> then resume from that position the next time MPlayer ist started with that
>> file/DVD/VCD.
>> If someone knows of VDR then have a look at playing recordings. I think
>> such a feature would be very nice to have in  MPlayer.
>>
>> Is such a feature planned?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas