[MPlayer-users] Dump sound with mplayer never exit on recent revision

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:42:00AM -0400, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> On Thursday, April 07, 2011 01:31:59 am Oliver Seitz wrote:
> > > I don't understand, why is quitting when audio is done not desirable ?
> > 
> > There are video files that have an audio track that does not match the
> > duration of the video. So it is better to have mplayer only quit when
> > both the video and the audio stream has ended.
> > 
> > For the rest of your questions... Sorry, I'm not that much into it.
> 
> I see. But in this case both the audio and video track matches. So mplayer 
> should know that the video track has also ended and quit, except that it 
> doesn't.

The whole point is that the video track hasn't ended, MPlayer is still busy
playing it. That's what -benchmark improves/fixes.
The :fast option is an ugly hack that makes MPlayer play the video faster as
long as there is audio, but it stoppes working once all audio is over and the
remaining video plays at normal speed.
But as said, the real fix is to use -novideo. If it doesn't work for some
cases that should just be fixed.