[MPlayer-users] MPlayer hangs and 'beeps' when playing MPEGs
Marc Packenius
marc at freenet-rz.de
Sun Jan 19 15:05:46 CET 2003
Marc Packenius <marc at freenet-rz.de> writes:
> The symptoms:
> - video freezes
> - audio plays high-pitched beep tone (maybe 8-12kHz, not sinus, more
> like sawtooth)
> - status output in shell window stops, there is no error message
> whatsoever
> - pressing a key in the mplayer shell window will resume playing
> without any problem, I usually simply use cursor-left to skip back a
> couple of frames; when running mplayer locally, even pressing the
> shift key will be enough to recover; I've seen it recover without
> interaction after waiting two or three minutes
The common element between all failures was a faulty network cable.
MPlayer simply is the only application I use that doesn't recover
gracefully from the short outages when retries occur (even when using
-cache).
So please accept my apology for falling into the 'accusing software of
hardware problems' trap.
Blushing,
--
Marc Packenius @ 4P | Zentrale Seitenauslieferung, Düsseldorf
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-- Emo Philips
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