[MPlayer-users] mplayer freezes computer on fedora core 4

Wed Jan 25 17:53:15 CET 2006

On Wednesday, 25 January 2006 at 08:39, Jesper Lundström wrote:
> Hi,
> I downloaded mlayer recently. Now I have noticed it freezes my computer when
> I play mp3's. It does not happen instantly and I am still trying to figure
> out if I do something special just then. Anyway, all the graphical stuff
> stops working.. I can still use terminals and open programs but I can not
> switch between workspaces or open new programs and the probelm continue even
> after killing mplayer. I have also noted that X keeps on working at a
> slightly increased level (even after killing mplayer but I don't know if
> this is related.. Have any of you had the this problem?

No. Try running it under strace or even under gdb (after recompiling with
--with-debug=3) and see if anything interesting comes up.

R.

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