[MPlayer-users] window destruction and pausing oddities

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:05:55PM -0700, Dave wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1) Why is it necessary for the player window to be destroyed at the end of
> a file, even when the player is set to loop or is in GUI mode?  In the
> former situation, this odd window behavior makes it impossible to play
> short clips while doing other things because the player window jumps
> around every time the loop goes around.  In GUI mode, there is an annoying
> flicker as several windows seem to fight among themselves.  IMHO, the
> proper way to have a clip terminate in GUI mode is to leave the last frame
> in the player window.

Yes this would be nice but it requires some significant changes to
libvo drivers.

> 2) I'm using SDL for output.  I pause the clip, then move the player
> window somwhere else or switch to another virtual desktop.  Why does the
> paused image stay in the same place on the screen hovering over everything
> else?

Broken XV drivers. Sounds like you're using nvidia.

Rich