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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
    Commented Jan 7, 2012 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
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 14:41
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    here, it seems that, while the video does freeze at the last frame, the time controls (going back) do not work. Is it supposed to be like that ? Any way around it ?
    – josinalvo
    Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 23:07
  • why no UI for this????
    – SuperUberDuper
    Commented Mar 4, 2016 at 20:35
  • For mpv (not sure about mplayer), one can also use -keep-open - that enables you to seek back as well.
    – sup
    Commented Jul 28, 2017 at 12:19
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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
    Commented Jan 7, 2012 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
    Commented Jan 7, 2012 at 20:17
  • -fs does not work unfortunately. show_videowin does not apply to me, as I don't use the gui version.
    – Sebastian
    Commented Jan 8, 2012 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
    Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 0:57
  • I think wmp6 is related to actionscript/flash and not to mplayer.
    – Sebastian
    Commented Jan 7, 2012 at 19:37

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