[MPlayer-users] Problems with pausing_keep

[Robert Cummings]

This post can be ignored now. I developed a patch after looking at the
code and understanding the problem :)

Cheers,
Rob.


On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 15:23 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I searched the web and couldn't find the answer I want so I signed up to
> this list. I've created a wrapper around mplayer in slave mode and I'm
> probing mplayer for the current position once per second. The problem is
> everytime I use the get_time_pos command the player unpauses if it was
> paused. I found the solution was to prefix pausing_keep before the
> command. This sort of works... except the player sneaks forward a single
> frame now on every probe... which isn't really pausing. Short of hacking
> the C code myself (which I will do if I have to), is there a way around
> this feature? On a side question -- if anyone happens to know -- what is
> the rationale for unpausing in the first place? Couldn't there be a
> command-line flag to throttle the feature completely?
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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