[Mplayer-users] Reactions to keystrokes when framedropping

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > when mplayer runs framedropping it does not accept keystrokes in the output 
> > window during drops. You have to switch to the console to control it. 
> > That's not good, e.g. when I play a movie (fullscreen, of course) which is 
> > too slow for my machine, then it drops all frames and I have to use Alt-TAB 
> > to get my console back, to press 'q'. Otherwise I'm stuck with a black 
> > screen. :-(
> 
> I got something similar. I had a broken avi that caused 
> dshow to stop... mplayer didn't accept any keystrokes anymore.
> All other codecs worked fine though.
> 
> But i couldnt reproduce the bug some days later, so I didnt
> report it.

I know, but i can't fix. This is the bad side of the single-process
player. Btw you still can play ctrl+c (it sends a signal) or if you
have X in fullscreen, then press alt+f4 (or the window-closing hotkey or
your wm).


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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