[MPlayer-users] Re: Exits with broken pipe

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:43:42PM -0500, David Norris wrote:
> On 5/6/05, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:49:18AM +0200, Rickard Närström wrote:
> > > I made a patch - witch solve the problem - it's not perfekt - it will exit
> > > mplayer with rc 1 (I didn't find out how to exit with rc 0)
> > >
> > > Sameone of the developers shuld check the patch and relese a better one.
> > 
> > Calling exit_player from vo is not acceptable imo. You should send the
> > quit event back to mplayer's main loop and then acknowledge/reject the
> > delete request or whatever you have to do..
> 
> Guys,
> 
> Thanks for your quick answers. Not to push, but is there any chance
> this patch will make it into the development tree anytime soon? It
> seems to me like a rather severe bug, and it's certainly been around

What makes it so severe? Granted it's a little bit annoying, but not
severe enough to warrant an ugly hack to work around it instead of a
proper fix...

Rich