This is a feature request. ffplay is really a convenient tool which is preferred (I think) for its simplicity and low recources' demand. However, there is an annoying thing that reverses the last statement. When playing only audio, a window is forced showing rdft or waves. Well, without this window (with "-nodisp" option) ffplay's CPU usage is almost 0 and with the window is between 2-5%. So, if we do not need that visualisation (and in most of the cases, not), that is a totally useless waist of system resources and energy. The "-nodisp" option is not a solution because it disables key controls, so we have to kill ffplay with Ctrl-C/Z which is quite ridiculous and annoying at the same time...
So, my feature request is to make ffplay: 1) accept hotkeys with "-nodisp" option like in showmode, or 2) in showmode can opt for showing only a blank window/custom image, or 3) can play multiple files in the same time, so that we could play an image and an audio stream together, and use hotkeys for the audio playback. I know that ffplay is not a fully featured media player, but if it is capable to display rdft and waves, then it would be not a very hard thing to implement an option to show only a blank window or nothing... _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
