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mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

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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?

aTdHvAaNnKcSe...

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cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

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mplayer changed behaviour in stretch Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2017-12-18 23:00 +0100
  Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-19 09:20 +0100
    Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2017-12-19 18:20 +0100
      Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2017-12-19 18:40 +0100
        Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-12-19 18:50 +0100
          Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2017-12-22 07:10 +0100

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