[MPlayer-dev-eng] Development Request, dialoug box on eject

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:16:02AM -0800, MALO BRAN wrote:
> > Hi, i hope this is the right group, or at least rests on the ear
> > of someone who can do something about it. My request is simple, 
> > and surely can be done. On the Windows port of MPLAYER, if one 
> > pressed EJECT on the DVD drive while a disc is playing... it 
> > pops up an annoying dialoug box that is HARD to close, and 
> > generally screws up things. Can it be turned off in future 
> > developments this feature, or at least a command-line switch, 
> > like -eject-quiet .... because it would be a more streamlined
> > thing to have. Just my 2 cents worth. Thanks for listening, or 
> > not. Bye ;)
> 
> I found this impossible to close dialog box to be a real 
> headache too, especially when manually ejecting dirty or 
> scratched discs... or in my case, my keyboard has a shortcut 
> to the drive eject function which by habit I must tape over 
> when running MPLAYER, ... or be forced to struggle with 
> shutting down the MPLAYER app & re-starting it thru Task 
> Manager each time if I accidentally press it!
> 
> hope to see a patch out for this soon.

This is Window's fault, blame their developers for thinking their OS
should interfere with all applications running on it as much and
annoyingly as possible.
Anyway I added "SetErrorMode(0x8003);" (already some time ago) in order
to force Windows to behave more civilized.