flash at the beginning of the playback

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Hello,

There is a sort of flash at the beginning of the playback (like the visual
bell of vim if you know.. a white screen in the player just before the
launch of the movie) It's annoying when you read a list of movies, when
moving from one to another.
I observed this behavior with all the video output that works for me (gl
and x11).

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Smooth transition between 2 video

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Ubuntu Jaunty version (0.9.4)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by leconte....@gmail.com on 21 Jun 2009 at 1:59

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This is due to restarting of mplayer between video files.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2009 at 7:58

• Changed state: Done

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Does the status 'Done' mean that now mplayer in not restarted and the same 
instance
used to play the next video file ?

Original comment by leconte....@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2009 at 4:58

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mplayer is restarted for every file on the playlist. This is done to ensure that
mplayer starts clean and in a known state.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2009 at 5:03

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Are you sure this is need ? Did you test without restarting ? Is it leading to 
issues
difficult to manage ?
Sorry to insist, I am glad to have this GTK interface for mplayer, but I really 
feel
this behavior as a "bug".  And afterall, mplayer do not restart itself when it 
read a
playlist...

Original comment by leconte....@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2009 at 5:33

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It is the method I chose to use and I won't be able to change that method 
without
altering large portions of the code.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2009 at 5:44

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Ok I understand. Thanks for your reply.

Original comment by leconte....@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2009 at 9:05

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>mplayer is restarted for every file on the playlist.
Maybe is that the reason of the unwanted behavior of gnome-mplayer last night. 
I drag and dropped 4 directories in gnome-mplayer playlist. The contents were 
mp3 
files and some jpg (cover scans).
when gnome-mplayer reached the 1st jpeg file, it skipped it but tried to load 
all 
the following songs at the same time. It started 20+ new mplayer instances 
playing 
all my songs at once. A had to kill them one by one.

Original comment by cncminus...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2009 at 2:30

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I'll have to look into that issue... did you drop them on the playlist or on 
the main
window?

Changed to 'new' to look at the drag and drop issue... fixing this issue, will 
have
nothing to do with the flashing. 

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2009 at 4:03

• Changed state: New

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I did some dragging and drop of files onto SVN and was unable to duplicate this
issue. Perhaps this issue has already been fixed.. you are using 0.9.4 and SVN 
is
basically 0.9.7.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2009 at 4:08

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I'm unable to duplicate this issue too. Probably a false alarm/random issue, 
sorry. 
I'm running 0.9.7 SVN (r 1371)

Original comment by cncminus...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2009 at 5:33

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>did you drop them on the playlist or on the main
window?
Playlist

Original comment by cncminus...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2009 at 5:36