[MPlayer-users] loadlist in slave mode not always working?

[Selwyn Tang]

On 03/17/04 12:06, cybertron at flashmail.com wrote:
> finishing too soon.  I've also set  
> MPlayer to loop the playlist, and then it just 
> continues to loop the old one  
> and doesn't load the new one.  Is it possible 

In my case, I first let mplayer play blank.avi, with -loop 0, and
immediately pause it. Then, when I have to play a video, I issue
'pause\nloadfile abc.avi\n' to it. The first 'pause\n' is to resume it.
When a video finishes its playback, mplayer will loop it and output a
custom message for my control program to issue another pause command to
it. Then I can load another file or blank.avi again.

> that while it is loading the  
> file, it won't accept the command?  I thought 
> that it would just hold the  
> command until it was ready, but maybe not?  

I'm not sure about that.

Selwyn