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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 04:58:20PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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.

I did that last change, so I believe that this kind of files will no
longer cause issue from r35686 on.
However I did not have such a file to actually test it, so
it would be welcome if someone can test it.