[MPlayer-users] A question about `playlist'

[The Wanderer]

Philip Walden wrote:

> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Hi to all Mplayer users.
>> 
>> Suppose that I want to do:
>> 
>> $ mplayer -playlist <filename>
>> 
>> , but that I want to start not by the first video of the list but,
>> say, by the seventh: is it possible, and how?

Not as far as I know. Might be an interesting addition, though.

> and is there going to be a repeat and/or random (shuffle) mode?

Do '-loop' and '-shuffle' not work as you're expecting when passed a
playlist? (I haven't tested them, I don't have a multifile playlist
immediately on hand and I don't care enough to build one just for this.)

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