[MPlayer-users] Re: Bug reporting - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux

[Sean]

OS: MacOS X.2.6
Problem: MPlayer launches the Aqua frontend even when unnecessary (when 
using X11 output), and doesn't handle the inability to launch the Aqua 
frontend gracefully.
How to replicate: build MPlayer with X11 support, and run MPlayer from 
a terminal within X. Note how the Aqua frontend still appears in the 
dock. Now, log out and enter >console as your user name. Log in at the 
terminal, and run exec startx to get an XWindows session. Try to run 
MPlayer, and it will quit with some errors that I didn't write down, 
but that are plainly Cocoa/Carbon calls failing to connect to the Mac 
window server. Lastly, run this same copy of MPlayer from Apple's 
Terminal.app without specifying -vo. Note how MPlayer gives errors 
about not being able to access the X11 window server, and then moves on 
to using the Aqua frontend. I would tend to think that MPlayer should 
behave the same way if Mac window server is unavailable, but X11 is.

Problem: --disable-macosx compile option does not effect above behavior 
at all. I thought I could just use two separate compiles of MPlayer to 
work around the problem above, but both compiles still launch the Aqua 
frontend. It seems to me that launching the Aqua frontend is covered by 
"Disable Mac OS X specific features." (from ./configure --help). It may 
also be worth checking for other Mac OS X specific features that should 
be disabled by this compiler tag but that are not.

X11: latest binary install available through XDarwin.org
gnome: current binaries available as part of the fink stable binary 
distro
computer: iBook (colors) G3 300MHz that barely plays DivX acceptably 
under OS9, and I wanted to see if there was a way to do so without 
rebooting and decompressing the audio before viewing.

Thank you for your time, and thanks for the great work on MPlayer.

Sean