[MPlayer-users] Playhead suddenly rewinds to beginning & sticks

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 09:39:15AM +0000, Scott Stoll wrote:
> 
> Oddball problem...
> 
> I'll be watching a vid, no problem. Suddenly, the playhead goes
> into a fast rewind, like a fast queue function that renders a
> frame now and then as it runs backward. It then hits the
> beginning and begins to oscillate the first 3 seconds of
> playback and then jumps back to the beginning over and over
> again.

sounds like your joystick is off-center. :)
try disabling joystick support so the joystick doesn't get used for
mplayer's input.

rich