[MPlayer-users] Re: BUG in mplayer!

[Stefan Seyfried]

Rainer Hantsch <rainer at hantsch.co.at> writes:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi!
> 
> I could meanwhile find out a very nasty bug within mplayer, which can be
> re-produced.
> 
> 1. Insert a VCD into CD-ROM
> 2. enter the command:   mplayer vcd://1 -dumpstream
> 3. Open another shell and rename the file 'stream.dump' which is still
>    growing.
> 4. Wait. -- This excellent mplayer will crash with a core dump (at least
>    it crashes on my machine within a short time.

I have to repeat it:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

is there a smiley ":)" after the "core dumped" message?
Also, i'm quite sure this has nothing to do with renaming the file.

>>From now on I can do whatever I want (I also can software-eject the VCD!), I
> am am not able to mount any normal Data-CDROM any more, while I am still able
> to play VCD's with mplayer. :-/

i'm pretty sure it is not related to the above.

> it crash at all?) or stop controlled. Or add an option to force it resetting
> the CDROM block size, if you don't want this behaviour by default.

Where is your patch? Everybody seems to want this, but noone codes it.
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