[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer-1.0pre4 and Direct Show Problem

[S.Çağlar Onur]

Hi;

If MPlayer-1.0pre4 tries to open "Microsoft ASF" file while system in 
tr_TR.UTF-8 locale, it crashes with segmentation fault and can't play it 
properly. But changing locale to "C" before run mplayer solves this problem.

This problem exists also in wine, and mplayer uses wine libraries to call 
directshow decoder [ I'm not sure other decoders like quicktime have that 
problem, ill test as soon as possible ]. 

English has only two, a lowercase dotted i and an uppercase dotless I. Turkish 
has lowercase and uppercase forms of both dotted and dotless I. So this makes 
a problem, while mplayer calles wine libraries. 
http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/turkish-i18n.html describes the problem
in "Why Applications Fail With The Turkish Language" section.

So i wrote a small patch. It changes system locale to "C" before the 
directshow plugin initialize and revert to current locale after 
initialization complete.

I saw some other locale change calles in mplayer source and it seems work fine 
for me. What you think about this solution?

-- 
S.Çağlar Onur <caglar at uludag.org.tr>
http://cekirdek.uludag.org.tr/~caglar/

Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates and an Apache in house!
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