[MPlayer-users] BUG with -vop pp=help

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:27:04PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > After "mplayer -vop pp=help" mplayer prints the help information (this
> > is right :-) and leaves the console in a state that any inputted text
> > doesn't appear on it (this is wrong :).
> > 
> > Bug in up-to-date CVS version.
> 
> yes, it's a known issue. there was a discussion on -dev-eng list few months
> ago. the problem is that libpostproc should be mplayer-independent so it
> cannot exit mplayer cleanly (calling exit_player()) and if getch2() was
> inited before then console will remain unusable.
> 
> there was no better (and acceptable) solution, so we left it as is.

IMO the solution is to remove pp=help and put the info in the man
page. The whole thing is nonsense as-is.

Rich