Bug#687594: Please document how to turn off a filter enabled in ~/.mplayer/config

[Josh Triplett]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2
Severity: wishlist

I have af=scaletempo in ~/.mplayer/config, because most of the time I
want to speed up videos so I can get through them faster without making
the audio high-pitched.  However, every once in a while I run into a
video with intentionally sped-up or slowed-down segments that did not
use pitch correction (so they sound high-pitched or low-pitched), and if
I want to undo the effect, I have to turn off the scaletempo filter.

At the moment, I have to do so by editing ~/.mplayer/config, removing
af=scaletempo, re-running mplayer, and seeking to that point.  I haven't
found any way to disable a filter either from the command line or from
the UI.  Ideally, I'd love to have a "disable filters" key; in the
absence of that, I'd love to have a command-line option to disable an
audio or video filter, so that I can override the config file rather
than editing it.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  libaa1                    1.4p5-40
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libavcodec53              6:0.8.3-7
ii  libavformat53             6:0.8.3-7
ii  libavutil51               6:0.8.3-7
ii  libbluray1                1:0.2.2-1
ii  libc6                     2.13-35
ii  libcaca0                  0.99.beta18-1
ii  libcdparanoia0            3.10.2+debian-11
ii  libdca0                   0.0.5-5
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9         1.2.10.0-5
ii  libdvdnav4                4.2.0+20120524-2
ii  libdvdread4               4.2.0+20120521-2
ii  libenca0                  1.14-2
ii  libesd0                   0.2.41-10+b1
ii  libfaad2                  2.7-8
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1
ii  libfribidi0               0.19.2-3
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.1-8
ii  libgif4                   4.1.6-9.1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  8.0.4-2
ii  libjack0 [libjack-0.116]  1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-1
ii  liblircclient0            0.9.0~pre1-1
ii  liblzo2-2                 2.06-1
ii  libmp3lame0               3.99.5+repack1-3
ii  libmpeg2-4                0.5.1-5
ii  libncurses5               5.9-10
ii  libogg0                   1.3.0-4
ii  libopenal1                1:1.14-4
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.49-3
ii  libpostproc52             6:0.8.3-7
ii  libpulse0                 2.0-6
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.15-5
ii  libsmbclient              2:3.6.6-3
ii  libspeex1                 1.2~rc1-6
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.1-8
ii  libsvga1                  1:1.4.3-33
ii  libswscale2               6:0.8.3-7
ii  libtheora0                1.1.1+dfsg.1-3.1
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libvdpau1                 0.4.1-7
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libx264-123               2:0.123.2189+git35cf912-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxinerama1              2:1.1.2-1
ii  libxv1                    2:1.0.7-1
ii  libxvidcore4              2:1.3.2-9
ii  libxvmc1                  2:1.0.7-1
ii  libxxf86dga1              2:1.1.3-2
ii  libxxf86vm1               1:1.1.2-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2                              1.0.6-4
ii  fontconfig                         2.9.0-7
ii  fonts-freefont-ttf [ttf-freefont]  20120503-1
pn  mplayer-doc                        <none>
pn  netselect | fping                  <none>

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