[MPlayer-users] Freezing when clicking player window embedded after losing focus

[Josh]

Not sure if this is really a mplayer or smplayer problem, but it started 
between r33488 and r34401 under Windows XP. When playing a video under 
smplayer and focus is lost (like clicking on the desktop) and then 
clicking on the video window to regain focus causes the  video to freeze 
and loop the sound for a few seconds or longer before resuming. The last 
known build to not experience the problem was Sherpya's r33488, and his 
r34401 build starts experiencing the problem. I haven't started 
compiling mplayer until well after that release, but every one I 
compiled has the problem and I have tried other people's builds (like 
SubJunk) and it has the same problem.

There isn't anything in any of the logs (set to verbose) out of the 
ordinary.

It happens on all videos, and changing settings like video, audio, 
direct rendering, threads, and so forth have no effect. Clicking on 
smplayer's actual window (toolbar, title bar, etc) doesn't trigger it 
(only clicking on the video itself) and only on Windows XP (Vista, 7 not 
affected).

Any help to figure out why this is happening is appreciated.. I make new 
builds at http://sourceforge.net/projects/smplayer/files/Unstable/ the 
latest as of this post 0.8.1.4525 (x86). Apparently "don't click the 
video" isn't the preferred 
solution.<http://sourceforge.net/projects/smplayer/files/Unstable/smplayer-0.8.1.4525-x86.exe/download>