[MPlayer-users] Latest SVN mplayer unable to play Apple's keynote speech

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 07:59:31PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Tom D. <dtom77 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I still get the error.
> 
> Which error?

The SIGPIPE at the end of the stream.
I think this should maybe be fixed in the live555 library (and maybe even
is in a newer version), though it maybe would also be better to make
MPlayer ignore SIGPIPE.
You could try this:
Index: mplayer.c
===================================================================
--- mplayer.c   (revision 31425)
+++ mplayer.c   (working copy)
@@ -3030,7 +3030,7 @@
   signal(SIGINT,exit_sighandler);  // Interrupt from keyboard
 
   signal(SIGQUIT,exit_sighandler); // Quit from keyboard
-  signal(SIGPIPE,exit_sighandler); // Some window managers cause this
+  signal(SIGPIPE,SIG_IGN); // Some window managers cause this
 #ifdef CONFIG_SIGHANDLER
   // fatal errors:
   signal(SIGBUS,exit_sighandler);  // bus error