repeat mode in mplayer

msound · 06-26-2005, 11:48 PM

I've done a million google searches for this but i dont understand what the result pages are saying. How do i configure mplayer to repeat playback? thanks.

acid_kewpie · 06-27-2005, 02:49 AM

use the -loop option

sudhasmyle · 06-27-2005, 04:08 AM

HI,
You can use -l option or press the space bar key at the end.

The best solution is configure with GUI mode while installing then you can do it simply just check the loop option.

msound · 06-27-2005, 06:58 AM

could either of you tell me where to find this loop option? are you saying i have to recompile mplayer in order to get the loop playback feature?

msound · 06-27-2005, 02:56 PM

kencaz · 06-27-2005, 03:20 PM

You can involk loop from the command line with either "mplayer" or "gmplayer"

mplayer -loop 3 ~/my_video.mpg
gmplayer -loop 3 ~/my_video.mpg

3=number of times to loop

You can also use "PgDown" to restart current video playing manually. You could probably add the loop option in the mplayer.conf file but not sure if it would work. Probably better to just start manually from command line or make a script.

KC

soupy · 08-02-2005, 06:31 AM

ok, i had to post a reply, because i've just tried the -loop option. i rtfm'd and thought i should be able to just add the line:

-loop 0

to the config file in ~/.mplayer but every time i try ti run mplayer with this in the config file, i get the error msg:

Option -loop needs a parameter at line 2

dunno what this means or how to fix it, but as cool as mplayer is, i'm sure there's a way to get it to loop playback, there's just gotta be.

kencaz · 08-02-2005, 12:58 PM

The only parameter -loop has in a number...

mplayer -loop 0 my_file.mp3

works fine and play's my_file continuous, however, it may be an option that mplayer will not use in the config file because it, (loop), may be looking for a filename before mplayer passes it...

You may be able to pass the -loop 0 option to a playlist, however, this would do basically the same thing...

KC

sekhonp · 12-05-2005, 02:22 PM

Here's what does the job in my /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

ontop="1"
loop="0"