[MPlayer-users] Start of video skipping when -loop 0 appended

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 11 Dec 2012, at 12:50, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Ivo Kubjas <ivo.kubjas <at> eesti.ee> writes:
> 
>> I am using MPlayer SVN-r35660-4.7.
>> 
>> When opening file (encoded with "avconv -i input.avi -c:v libx264
>> -preset medium -crf 22 -s 1280x720 -c:a libvorbis output.mkv"
> 
> Could you confirm that this is no avconv-related?
> The application is known to contain several 
> hundred regressions, so while it is unlikely, maybe 
> the file is completely broken?

Completely seems too strong to me, but it is a bit broken probably, having timestamps starting with negative values.
I don't think it is possible to enable the behaviour of -loop 0 at the start via slave interface.
That loop 0 applies to the whole playlist, and the loop property only applies to the files.
If you do not need to toggle it, you can however start MPlayer already with -loop 0 -slave -idle, I think that should work.
In addition to that, the loop seek in mplayer.c should be changed to do a percent seek to the start when -ss is not given/it is 0.