[MPlayer-users] smooth looping with mplayer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:46:36PM -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
>  :: Hi,
>  :: 
>  :: > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>  :: > 
>  :: > I hope this is not a "RTFM" (which I have diligently tried to do!) question.
>  :: > 
>  :: > I have some short, experimental, research clips (mostly
>  :: > raw/uncompressed .avi files) on which I wish to loop indefinately for
>  :: > some visual experiments.  I know about `-loop 0' but it is not doing
>  :: > what I want.  With `-loop 0', mplayer seems to "restart" at the end of
>  :: > the clip which makes it (and the video sequence) flash annoyingly.  Also
>  :: > the display window is repositioned from where I moved it.
>  :: 
>  :: mplayer -loop 0 filename (looping playlist)  will restart every time, but
>  :: mplayer filename -loop 0 (looping single file) won't.
>  :: 
>  :: A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> 
> Excellent!  Even better than the -fixed-vo advice.  But this
> introduces another problem.  At the beginning of each loop, after the
> first run-through, "white bars" [|||||||||] get inserted in the playing
> video for half a second or so.  I don't see an option to inhibit
> these.  Is there a way to turn this off.

Well you can use -osdlevel 0 to disable osd entirely. Apparently
there's a stupid 10l bug in the osd that makes it display for a few
seconds when transitioning from one movie to the next (or next loop
iteration).

Rich