mplayer changed behaviour in stretch
I'm a heavy user of mplayer from the command line - it's a wonderful
utility that does what I want and lets me instantly move around in a
video or MP3 file. However, after upgrading one of my machines from
Jessie to Stretch, I've noticed a couple of changes in its behaviour
that I'd really like to roll back.
First of all, when pausing playback with the space bar, attempts to move
around in a file will now cancel the pause. This is a pain when
practising music against a recording. I often want to repeat a passage,
so I'll pause and back up to the beginning of the passage - but I don't
want to unpause until I'm ready to start playing again. The man page
describes a "-pausing 2" command-line option which restores the desired
behaviour, but I haven't seen any mention of an equivalent I can put
into the configuration files to restore this as the default behaviour.
Second, the new version no longer displays ID3 tag information. I can
find no description of an option, either on the command line or in a
configuration file, to restore this display.
I could copy the old binary from my Jessie machine to the Stretch
machine, but that's kind of tacky. Does anyone know of a way to make
the new version behave like the old one?
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cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
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