[MPlayer-users] window destruction and pausing oddities

[Dave]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:05:55PM -0700, Dave wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 
> > Two questions:
> > 
> > 1) Why is it necessary for the player window to be destroyed at the end of
> > a file, even when the player is set to loop or is in GUI mode?  In the
> > former situation, this odd window behavior makes it impossible to play
> > short clips while doing other things because the player window jumps
> > around every time the loop goes around.  In GUI mode, there is an annoying
> > flicker as several windows seem to fight among themselves.  IMHO, the
> > proper way to have a clip terminate in GUI mode is to leave the last frame
> > in the player window.
> 
> Yes this would be nice but it requires some significant changes to
> libvo drivers.

How significant?  This seems like broken behavior.

> > 2) I'm using SDL for output.  I pause the clip, then move the player
> > window somwhere else or switch to another virtual desktop.  Why does the
> > paused image stay in the same place on the screen hovering over everything
> > else?
> 
> Broken XV drivers. Sounds like you're using nvidia.

I've observed this effect with Xfree 3.2.x (or whatever it was that NetBSD
1.5.x used) and Xfree 4.x (which NetBSD 1.6 uses).  The cards include an
old Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM and an ATI Radeon 7000. I avoid nvidia cards.


-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu