On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 19:31 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > I found the mailing list post I was thinking of: > > http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2010-February/079284.html That's a different issue - he's using -wid to show video in a external window opened by another application, and talking about whether that is blanked at the end of playback or not. Your idle mode window issue is separate (though that post does mention the -fixed-vo option which was also relevant to your actual issue).
