[MPlayer-users] Is there a way to keep mplayer running between videos so it doesn't stop and di

[Ingo Brückl]

Oliver Seitz wrote on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:51:07 +0200:

> On 26.08.2011 20:01, film123 at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> In Ubuntu 10.10 on an Acer 3600 Revo Ion, I am playing videos from a
>> playlist with mplayer in slave mode.
>>
>> After each video has finished playing (between videos), the desktop
>> background is visible for a fraction of a second.

> You're already using -idle which keeps mplayer running at the end of the
> video.

> Maybe -fixed-vo is what you're looking for.

There seems to be a bug with the _NETWM_STATE_FULLSCREEN hint when starting
playback in -fs. The size of the second video (normal size) isn't set, which
means that switching in the second video from fullscreen to normal size leads
to a wrongly sized window (size of first video).

Ingo