[MPlayer-users] No more "Falling back on trying to parse playlist" w/ mplayer-1.0pre2
Bas Nedermeijer
basneder at tdlnx.student.utwente.nl
Tue Oct 14 02:55:59 CEST 2003
On Sunday 12 October 2003 17:22, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 04:53:46PM +0200, Bas Nedermeijer wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hello,
> >
> > mplayer doesnt try anymore to process a file as a playlist. Normally i
> > use .m3u files for this, but they arent working anymore. Is this "by
> > design"? I did see the code for processing playlists still in the source.
> > Hope it will be fixed, or is there some other way to play playlists?
> > Anyway, tnx for this great player :)
>
> For the time being, use -playlist. I disabled auto-fallback to
> playlist because it was buggy (lots of non-playlist files that mplayer
> didn't recognize were tried as playlist, making mplayer hang forever
> rather than going on to the next file), and because I don't trust the
> playlist parser to be secure (so I don't think it should be run on
> arbitrary files unless the user knows it's a playlist and has verified
> it).
Ok, point taken, but is there also an option to enable easy in the source? I
changed some stuff to no avail. :)
> Some developers have suggested adding it back optionally (e.g. an
> enable-playlist-fallback option you could put in your config file or
> on the command line) or fixing the playlist parser. Either solution is
> acceptable to me.
Yes, that would be a nice option, because i select movies with a
remote-control through the menu, and creating a playlist.m3u.conf (with the
option playlist=yes) doesnt seem to help. Most movies i watch consist of
multiple files, so using a playlist was kinda neat :P
- Bas Nedermeijer
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