Bug#831382: mplayer2: keyboard shortcuts fail for up/down/left/right arrows.. program hangs in "seek" (apparently)

[Ralph Ronnquist]

Package: mplayer2
Version: Jessie stable
Severity: important

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-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0 (jessie)
Release:	1.0
Codename:	jessie
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

I tried mplayer2 as well as mpv, and they both exhibit the same
problem, that arrow key short cuts makes the program hang. I've now
installed mplayer from deb-multimedia, and this works fine.