[MPlayer-users] BUG in mplayer!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:01:09PM +0100, Rainer Hantsch wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi!
> 
> I could meanwhile find out a very nasty bug within mplayer, which can be
> re-produced.
> 
> 1. Insert a VCD into CD-ROM
> 2. enter the command:   mplayer vcd://1 -dumpstream
> 3. Open another shell and rename the file 'stream.dump' which is still
>    growing.
> 4. Wait. -- This excellent mplayer will crash with a core dump (at least
>    it crashes on my machine within a short time.

Are you sure there isn't a smiley after the "core dump" message? :)

> >From now on I can do whatever I want (I also can software-eject the VCD!), I
> am am not able to mount any normal Data-CDROM any more, while I am still able
> to play VCD's with mplayer. :-/
> 
> I guess, mplayer does not re-set drive parameters correctly. One solution
> would be to add some code into mplayer which forces 2048 Byte blocks whenever
> it exits. Another option would be to fix the bug and let it either continue
> (the file handle is still the same, even when renaming the file, so why does
> it crash at all?) or stop controlled. Or add an option to force it resetting
> the CDROM block size, if you don't want this behaviour by default.

Then your cdrom drive/driver is broken. This does not happen to anyone
else, and should not be able to happen.

Rich