[MPlayer-users] screen filled with junk

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:39:58PM +0100, Glyn wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> > > > Why not keep printing a single line whith \r to overwrite it?
> > > It does. Your terminal is probably not wide enough so it scrolls to the
> > > next line.
> > Thanks for trying but no:
> > 
> > - the terminal is 80 and the status line fits in,
> > - initially the status line dosen't scroll,
> > 
> > I found that the status line starts scrolling the moment I press "f" to
> > go fullscreen (-vo xv) or that any other message is printed by mplayer
> > (e.g: system too slow), after that the status message keeps scrolling ad
> > infinitum.
> 
> Try making the terminal a couple of characters wider anyway.  See if it
> still starts scrolling at the same point.  I used to have a situation
> where once I'd gone past 10 (or sometimes 100 or 1000) seconds the
> status line became too wide for my terminal.

My god, this is shocking! It works as you said. No scrolling when the
terminal is wider.

(Cameron: I stand corrected.)

It would be nice though not having to resize one's terminal just to run
mplayer. My compulsive mind likes to keep the rxvt's neatly organized
and not bent out of shape ;-)

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