[MPlayer-users] How to fade between videos

[Oliver Seitz]

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>       I'm  using the -shuffle -loop 0 options to randomly play many videos and keep looping. Is there anyway to make the transition between videos more smooth, like using some fading effect or anything similar?
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Hi!

I'm not sure if I know all the tricks, but to my knowledge there is no 
possibility to do that with mplayer alone. And, a cross-fade effect is 
very hard to obtain.

It is possible though to fade out one video and after that fade in 
another using a "transparent black" bitmap overlay (-vf bmovl). You 
would need to control mplayer in slave mode by some other script or 
program that successively adjusts the opacity of the overlay from 
transparent to opaque, start the next video, and make the overlay 
transparent again in little steps.

To achieve a real cross-fade effect you would have to use two video 
players on top of each other, and the player would need to be able to 
play video semi-transparent. While modern video hardware could assist 
the software in this sophisticated task, I do not know of any video 
player software that can do that.

Greets,
Kiste