[MPlayer-users] Most annoying long-standing bugs in Mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:37:09AM +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi Reimar Döffinger!
> 
>  On 2011.03.24 at 19:24:56 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote next:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 03:21:11AM +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> > > There is probably only one: mouse wheel. Many years ago mouse wheel
> > > support broke in mplayer, it happened on every system and with every
> > > mouse I have (and I replaced mouse twice since then and upgraded main
> > > PC, too).
> > 
> > It seems to work just fine for me, does anyone else have this?
> > Do you happen to have key-fifo-size set to some really small value in
> > your config?
> > Otherwise use xev to check that there's both a press and release
> > event for all mouse key presses.
> 
> Yes, xev shows events on press and release properly. I have
> 
> key-fifo-size = 2 # don't buffer keyboard input
> 
> in config. I uhh forgot why I did that but some change in mplayer forced
> me to set that, because the way controls started to behave became
> unbearable without that setting. I forgot why exactly, it was so long
> time ago.
> 
> I tried key-fifo-size = 10, well now I can use mouse wheel *once* :o
> If I turn wheel on two steps within a second, same problem happens.

Not here, please try with -noconfig all
I might have an idea how to solve this quite thoroughly though.