[MPlayer-users] playlist suggestion

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Joey Parrish <joey.parrish <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On 5/1/07, Robert Parker <theparkers.mailbox <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 01/05/07, Joey Parrish <joey.parrish <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Then I suppose it'll be an option which defaults to off.  May I
> > > suggest -autoplaylist or -auto-playlist or some such?
> 
> > how would mplayer know what the playlist file extensions are ? or are
> > you saying that the option would work like this
> 
> > $ mplayer -auto-playlist ext=ram,asx url  # tell mplayer what the list is
> > and
> > $ mplayer -auto-playlist url  # mplayer uses its own built-in list
> 
> No, not at all.  There will be no list of extensions given to MPlayer.
>  If I write an m3u-style playlist and name it foo.bar, it will still
> be detected as an m3u playlist.  It has nothing to do with the
> extension.
> 
> --Joey
> 

i tried to get something like this into mplayer but no one liked my idea...
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-advusers/2005-January/001071.html

i think vlc has an automatic playlist demuxer, but like one of the replies says 
'just because other media players do it that way...'