[MPlayer-users] Tell MPlayer not to quit!

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:48:40AM +0200, faxmodem at free.fr wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:39:13PM -0300, Daniel Guilherme wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there any way to tell mplayer not to quit when a
> > video file has ended?
> > 
> > A switch like: -stay_stoped_and_wait_for_user_action
> > :)
> 
> while :; do mplayer -input file=commandfile -slave /dev/null; done

This is not a proper solution. Use -idle (patch will be appiled soon
if not yet..

> > Thanks!
> 
> you're welcome ;)

lol.. don't congratulate yourself for giving hackish solutions.. :)

Rich