[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix for the fbdev/playlist bug

[Arpi]

Hi,

> this bug should fix the problem that makes mplayer crash when playing 
> playlists with the fbdev driver.
> 
> Apparently the problem is that, after playing the first file, for some 
> reason both tty and fbdev file descriptors are closed and therefore when 
> mplayer tries to play the second one it does not find anywhere to send 
> the images to. My solution is simply to reopen them every time MPlayer 
> tries to play a new file. It would be probably nicer to convince mplayer 
> not to close those but I have not enough time and experience to do it.

actually your patch looks like a hack (maybe workaround) not a proper fix :(

i don't think that mplayer closes the tty by reason, maybe vo_fbdev does it.

> I'm sending you the same patch I sent to the mplayer-users list since I 

you should read docs/tech/patches.txt

> BTW, in case you may find it useful, I noticed that if you redirect both 
> STDIN and STDOUT to somewhere else, like /dev/null, then the positioning 
> problems disappear.

positioning problem?


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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