[MPlayer-users] Does this seem like an mplayer bug?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:41:51AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I finally tracked down a mysterious bug this weekend, which turns
> out to be triggered by mplayer when run with no $DISPLAY like
> so:
> 
> unset DISPLAY
> mplayer -identify -frames 0 trunc.mpg
> 
> My GUI display disappears and is replaced with the contents
> of the VT1 terminal leftover from before X started. This
> happened when it opened /dev/fb0 and did some ioctl operations.

I think that is kind of intended.
But could you provide a full MPlayer log?
So I at least know if it's the fbdev, fbdev2 etc.
Using ATI fglrx drivers I cannot reproduce such an issue with either
of them, but it might be specific to Intel driver or so.