[MPlayer-users] OSD problem (bug) stops (loops?) mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:02:46PM +0200, Paul TT wrote:
> i can't use anymore OSD, in this way: just when a movie is playing fine,
> when i hit, for example, 'o', or some other key, which should write
> something on the OSD  -for example, 'v', or 'd', or... you understood,
> no?- mplayer stops, the movie stucks to the current frame, the OSD
> doesn't show up, mplayer use 99.9% or less (little) of the CPU. i can
> only stop it with a ctrl-c.
[...]

> i don't think it's a font problem, or font rendering problem, since i
> can read/use perfectly subtitles from a mkv file, for example.
> 
> the same problem it's here when i start mplayer as:
> mplayer -osdlevel X file.avi
> with X >= 2

compile mplayer with --enable-debug, start it with
gdb --args mplayer -osdlevel 3 file.avi
(type "run" in the command prompt that comes up then),
wait until it hangs, then press CTRL+C and type "bt" on the prompt
and send us the output.

[...]
> posted to -users and -dev ml....

bug reports belong to -users only.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger