[MPlayer-users] Problem with gmplayer and r31381

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 05:32:42PM +0200, Giorgio wrote:
> Ok, I made a new checkout, applied the patch and compiled mplayer. Now
> the error is gone from the output of mplayer, but the problem is still
> there. I made a video so you can see for yourself:

You could try this (or in general randomly comment out things in that function
until it works, it must be something in that function that causes it (I think):
Index: libvo/x11_common.c
===================================================================
--- libvo/x11_common.c  (revision 31384)
+++ libvo/x11_common.c  (working copy)
@@ -1153,7 +1155,7 @@
 final:
   if (vo_gc != None)
     XFreeGC(mDisplay, vo_gc);
-  vo_gc = XCreateGC(mDisplay, vo_window, GCForeground, &xgcv);
+//  vo_gc = XCreateGC(mDisplay, vo_window, GCForeground, &xgcv);
   XSync(mDisplay, False);
   vo_mouse_autohide = 1;
 }


> It's interesting that if I press 'f' to go in fullscreen mode, I see
> the video, but the osd information is showed twice and the last digit
> has another digit under it.

I guess it is most likely a driver bug...

> It would be nice if someone else could test this too, maybe it's just
> my system, but again r31380 works fine. But I understand that gmplayer
> is basically unsupported nowadays. Thank you anyway.

Well, if only gmplayer was the issue I wouldn't care much, however
gmplayer now uses the interface that all MPlayer GUIs should use,
so if gmplayer has this issue, other GUIs might have the same.