[MPlayer-users] mplayer freezes when losing RTP stream from dvbstream

[Nico Sabbi]

bifferos wrote:

>I've seen this on the mailing list a while back and wondered if anybody has
>a patch/workaround that solves it.
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>I've written two scripts - one to control mplayer through slave mode,
>the other to control dvbstream (on another computer).  I'm using mplayer 
>as a 'front end' rather than a 'back end', i.e. when I press a function key on
>the mplayer machine the mplayer stdout writes a "No bind found for key <blah>", 
>I trap the text, then send the key code to the machine running dvbstream 
>and tell it to change channel (I could also bind a key to the 'run' command
>but I don't want to launch an external program).
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>This is working OK, but mplayer usually gets messed up when changing 
>channels, (generally freezes) so I need to kill it every time I change 
>channel.  Sometimes it gets messed up on a restart as well.
>I tried doing an openfile on the slave console to reopen the stream
>but that doesn't always work.  I'm using MPlayer 1.0pre7try2.
>
>So if anyone knows any work-arounds for this one please get in touch.
>
>cheers
>-bif.
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post the patch and we'll see :)