Bug#640889: smplayer: unresponsive UI, uses 100% CPU

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, Reinhard.

On Sep 26 2011, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Mo, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:20:42 (CEST), Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Just as an extra data point, I have *exactly* the same problem, with
> > exactly the same symptom and changing to mplayer2 also works around the
> > problem with smplayer.
> 
> Okay, this is an interoperability issue then. Let's mark them
> appropriately.

And some extra details: playing with mplayer on the command line is
fine. Only when playing with smplayer is that I had problems.

With smplayer, I can play a random amount of video, but then it gets the
problem that Sven originally reported.

Just for the record, the first time that I discovered this bug was when I
was watching a movie with my wife, which was a let down. :-(

> Can you please file a bug on gecko-mediaplayer to change its
> dependencies to allow it to work with mplayer2? Thanks.

Looking closely, the bug is actually on a dependency of gecko-mediaplayer,
gnome-mplayer, which you already file a bug against.

Now, we have to wait for the maintainer to just put one simple change in the
control file and upload it...

Seems like I will have to compile a private copy of gnome-mplayer and upload
it to my PPA, without being able to share the benefits with a wider user
base.  :-(


Cheers,

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