[MPlayer-users] MPlayer seems to grab the scaler and not let go

Jan Knutar jknutar at nic.fi
Sun Oct 28 22:54:25 CET 2007


On Sunday 28 October 2007 15:01, john q public wrote:
> Ive noticed that older versions of MPlayer have no problem coexisting
> with xawtv
> but that the last few incarnations don't play well with others. Now
> if I use mplayer to view
> a video I can not use xawtv afterwards until I restart X window. 
> Xine does not share this
> issue and so sometimes Ill just use it but Id rather use mplayer.
> Does anyone else have
> problems with mplayer grabbing resources without resetting them? Is
> there some way
> I can fix this? I'm willing to have a look at the code but have no
> idea where to start.


Are there any MPlayer processes left over after MPlayer exits? Check 
with ps aux...



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