[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] x11 vo drivers override user settings for window placement

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:28:53PM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
[...]
> Anyway, of course I'll try the latest version, since it looks like
> someone actually cares about these bugs ;)

Sure I do, I "fixed" them all for me. Unfortunately some of the fixes
relied on certain other bugs...

> > > mplayer just switches back to window on video change. It also does this
> > > on aspect ratio change
> > This is exactly the same problem as you already reported and shouldn't
> > be specific to -fixed-vo but actually the other way round.
> 
> So, was _this_ one fixed?
> The Wanderer is trying to tell me that fullscreen status activated with 'f'
> isn't supposed to override (assumed) global "no-fs" mode. While I consider
> this to be a wrong behaviour, at least there is logic behind it. But
> there is no reason at all why mplayer would lose fs status on aspect
> ratio change.

No, it's actually the same bug. The vo (currently?) simply has no
business knowing when a file ends and another one starts, though an
aspect change is the same as a new file.

[...]
> Could it be wm-related?

Actually it is (see my mail about -fstype).
But actually please just apply my [RFC] patch and then report any bugs
that still remain after that.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger