[MPlayer-users] Keyboard/mouse lockout with Mplayer

[Bev]

On 06/10/10 09:50, Bev wrote:

> On 06/10/10 09:08, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>
>> Bev<bashley101<at>   gmail.com>   writes:
>>
>>>> Which vo does pre7 use for you?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Carl.  I've played around with different entries in my
>>> .mplayer/config file.  Currently the file is empty.  When mplayer runs I
>>> don't know how to find out what vo it chose.
>>
>> That's why I asked which vo pre7 uses (where you claim the keyboard -
>> including "q" still work)
>>
>> Or is your problem to parse the line ".VO: [...]" in MPlayer's output?
>
> On the pre7 it says 'sdl:using driver svgalib'.  I have direct svga support
> as well as sdl support and it looks like pre7 is looking for sdl first; I
> have configured SDL to use svgalib, so the message from pre7 is coming from
> sdl which is using svgalib.
>
> If I say -vo svga the message is 'using VESA driver' -- and that is because
> I have configured svga to use VESA.  If I say -vo VESA, mplayer won't start
> even though in both previous cases it ends up using VESA.
>
> I went back to 1.0rc1, which disabled the keyboard.  I then modified
> libvo/vo_svga.c and commented out the getch2_disable() line;  the 1.0rc1
> then runs with the keyboard enabled.
>
> I am now working on the latest version.  A similar patch to vo_svga.c
> doesn't work.  I've reconfigured the package to shut down SDL support, which
> results in mplayer trying and failing to implement fbdev2.

When I start mplayer without telling it what driver to use it chooses the sdl
driver and I get a beautiful picture and no keyboard control. SDL uses svgalib 
for its low-level output.  If I start mplayer with -vo svga I get a small 
flickering picture which can't be expanded or zoomed to full-screen, so SDL 
informs svgalib better than mplayer does directly.

Apparently there is some reason for disabling console input for vo_sdl, but in 
my case, since keyboard input is allowed under vo_svga there is no reason to 
disable the keyboard under sdl.

I have put a getch2_enable() call in vo_sdl.c after the point where sdl tells 
which driver *it* is using, and I get nothing -- no display and it hangs;  I 
have to kill it from another machine.

Any suggestion about how I can enable getch2 under sdl will be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Cheers, Bev
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