[MPlayer-users] MPlayer hangs and 'beeps' when playing MPEGs

[Marc Packenius]

Marc Packenius <marc at freenet-rz.de> writes:

> The symptoms:

> - video freezes

> - audio plays high-pitched beep tone (maybe 8-12kHz, not sinus, more
>   like sawtooth)

> - status output in shell window stops, there is no error message
>   whatsoever

> - pressing a key in the mplayer shell window will resume playing
>   without any problem, I usually simply use cursor-left to skip back a
>   couple of frames; when running mplayer locally, even pressing the
>   shift key will be enough to recover; I've seen it recover without
>   interaction after waiting two or three minutes

The common element between all failures was a faulty network cable. 
MPlayer simply is the only application I use that doesn't recover
gracefully from the short outages when retries occur (even when using
-cache).

So please accept my apology for falling into the 'accusing software of
hardware problems' trap.

Blushing,
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