[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add loop option to ffplay

[Robert Krüger]

On 19.03.2010, at 21:07, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 04:56:53PM +0100, Robert Kr?ger wrote:
>> 
>> OK, now to the correct list, sorry.
>> 
>> The following patch adds a -loop option to ffplay, which I find very handy when reviewing raw footage.
>> 
>> Provided this is generally accepted, there is the question how to treat the conflict between autoexit and loop. One could change this from OPT_BOOL to a function which in both cases aborts with an error because these two things contradict or could output a warning telling the user that only one will be used or it could just do one of the two things (which is what is implemented in this patch but probably not the most user-friendly).
>> 
>> Let me know which one it shall be and I will modify the patch accordingly.
> 
> make loop take an argument that specifies how oftten too loop and
> afterwards exist if autoexit is there 
> 

and not allow the user to specify to loop indefinitely other than with a high number? 

Regards,

Robert