[MPlayer-users] mplayer hangs (?) eating 100% cpu while trying to identify the file

[The Wanderer]

hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 08:40:21PM +0200, Francesco Cosoleto wrote:
> 
>> 2009/4/1 hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz at depesz.com>:
>> 
>>> But. Just yesterday, sombody uploaded file which made mplayer
>>> hand, using 100% cpu. mplayer did output a lot of "Seek failed"
>>> lines, and strace output looked rather weird:
>> 
>> Maybe are you using MPlayer 1.0rc2? You should try with a more up
>> to date version.
> 
> I do, but what is the current version?
> I went to: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html and there seems
> not to be any released version newer than 1.0rc2.

There isn't. The MPlayer project doesn't normally make releases. Users
are expected to run the SVN version, at least if they want much support
from the developers.

There are pushes for a release every now and then - there seems to be a
push for 1.0rc3 going on now, in fact - but so far they haven't changed
very much in the long run.

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