[MPlayer-users] My question of the hour, does anyone know source inside out?

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 07:59:25AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
[...]
> > The video window is not supposed to stay there, that is the way it
> > works, though with -fixed-vo it most likely will stay there (could be
> > considered a bug),
> 
> ...eh?
> 
> I thought that the entire purpose of '-idle' was to keep the window
> there (with MPlayer running to support it) after playback finished. (I
> think I got this impression from the original request/discussion which
> led to '-idle' being added, since IIRC that behaviour was part of that
> original request.) Are you saying that that is not the case?

The purpose of -idle is to keep MPlayer running and waiting for slave
commands, if you want it to display something you can just load a file
to do so (esp. with -loop 0).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger