mplayer/xfce4 problems

[Mark Houlder]

i've since seen in happen in fluxbox, and a few other people have 
reported it, so it *isn't* xfce

seems to be happening more and more though, even after i downgraded to 
_pre2 it hasn't gone away :(


Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>Looks like a bug in mplayer, some kind of race cond or something. In any
>case, the WM shouldn't cause the app to crash.
>
>Cheers,
>Olivier.
>
>On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:05, Mark Houlder wrote:
>  
>
>>Yan Seiner wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>What version of mplayer?  And is it an rpm install or compiled from 
>>>source?
>>>
>>>Both my mplayer installs work fine; an old Toshiba laptop (533 
>>>celeron, 128MB ram, S3 graphics) and the production box, Athlon 2000+, 
>>>768 MB RAM, Matrox G550, running XFCE4.
>>>
>>>I'd start by getting the latest tarball and compiling mplayer for your 
>>>system.
>>>
>>>--Yan
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>1.0_pre3 - it's still the latest available for gentoo (stable), and as 
>>it works with fluxbox i'm inclined to believe it's not an issue with 
>>mplayer as such. i'm also using Xfree-4.3.99
>>
>>one thing i did notice was that if i stopped tpb (on-screen display of 
>>thinkpad button displays using xosd) it sometimes worked after that. 
>>however i've since stopped using tpb and the problem hasn't gone away
>>
>>
>>mark
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