[MPlayer-users] Matroska chapter support

Steve Dibb steve at wonkabar.org
Sun Jul 16 17:51:41 CEST 2006


Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> On Sunday 16 July 2006 06:03, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
>>I disagree. This behavior is extremely annoying if you're playing
>>multiple files or something. Ending the current file is the sensible
>>behavior when there is no "next chapter".
>>
>>There used to be (still are?) some demuxers that would misbehave like
>>this when trying to seek past the end of the file and it was really
>>counter-intuitive and annoying, IMO.
> 
> 
> Then there would be no way to scroll to the last chapter without 
> unintentionally quitting playback. If we are going to be consistent, the same 
> (quitting) should happen when '@' is pressed on a file without chapters. 
> I find it a little strange.

My vote would be just don't do anything.  That way you know there's either no 
chapters, or no more chapters, and playback isn't interrupted.

Steve



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