Author: ib Date: Sun May 12 19:33:52 2024 New Revision: 38508 Log: Add an explanation of the -loop option to the man page.
Based on a patch by Lorenzo, plorenzo disroot org, https://bugs.debian.org/418855. Modified: trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Modified: trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Sat May 11 07:39:42 2024 (r38507) +++ trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Sun May 12 19:33:52 2024 (r38508) @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" Title .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . -.TH MPlayer 1 "2024-05-11" "The MPlayer Project" "The Movie Player" +.TH MPlayer 1 "2024-05-12" "The MPlayer Project" "The Movie Player" . .SH NAME mplayer \- movie player @@ -1174,9 +1174,16 @@ Print a list of the available properties . .TP .B \-loop <number> -Loops movie playback <number> times. +Loops the playback <number> times. +.br 0 means forever. -Use \-loop 0 to automatically reconnect to live streaming URLs. +Use \-loop 0 <URL|filename> to automatically reconnect to live streaming URLs +or files yet to be created or to be replaced. +.br +\-loop <number> <URL|filename> opens the URL or file <number> times in a row +and plays it once each time, while <URL|filename> \-loop <number> opens the +URL or file once and plays it <number> times in a loop, which is usually what +you want. . .TP .B \-menu (OSD menu only) _______________________________________________ MPlayer-DOCS mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-docs
