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Is it possible to make mplayer freeze in the last frame of the video instead of closing?

I am using CLI version of mplayer in linux.

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I have the same problem and use a bright xterm and the dwm window manager. My wife is always annoyed by the bright screen at the end of a longer movie. Starting a bounty. – Sebastian Jan 7 at 19:38
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You can use this

#mplayer test.ogg -idle -fixed-vo
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awesome, you are my hero. Note: This also works for the vdpau video output, although the manpage states only gl, gl2, mga, svga, x11, xmga, xv, xvidix and dfbmga – Sebastian Jan 12 at 14:41
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You can do this with mplayer's slave mode. See:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt

Also mentioned in the FAQ, 5th question under General Questions:
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=MPlayer_FAQ#General_Questions

Good luck!

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Thanks for the quick reply. I also found the -slave and -idle options. The do prevent mplayer from exiting, however, they always close the video window. In my case, the bright xterm appears. Did I miss something? – Sebastian Jan 7 at 20:07
I don't have my Linux laptop handy so can't try at the moment, but I really believe its how I had it going in slavemode. A few guesses that I might have used is -fs for fullscreen, and maybe show_videowin set to yes in gui.conf? Hope some of those makes a difference. Another "ugly" workaround is to use the -loop option to just loop the movie a bunch of times, but that might be even more annoying. ;) – Mattias Ahnberg Jan 7 at 20:17
-fs does not work unfortunately. show_videowin does not apply to me, as I don't use the gui version. – Sebastian Jan 8 at 19:47
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The feature you need can be supproted by adding new fscommands in a revised version. But the pause-on-last-frame feature will only work in wmp6.X rather than on 7.X.(Add the fscommand "fas.avclip.USEWMP6" to force utilize V6.X)

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Can you clarify for me what you mean by "fscommands" and "revised version"? – André Puel Nov 10 '11 at 0:57
I think wmp6 is related to actionscript/flash and not to mplayer. – Sebastian Jan 7 at 19:37
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