[MPlayer-users] MPlayer hangs in slave mode on Windows

[Anton Sviridenko]

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> Are you using the gl VO by any chance?
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No, it used directx by default

>> I you use slave mode you must connect stdin to a proper file/pipe where read, select etc. works in the expected way.
>> In the normal command-line stdin is connect to a console which is a horrible and crazy construct that behaves in no sane way, so all kinds of strange effects happen (since -slave disables the workarounds we use to read keyboard input from it).
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> select() works only on sockets on windows.
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> I'm pretty sure most slavemode hosts just use some form of pipe that
> can't be selected and on which even overlapped IO is not possible.

I think there should be something in WinAPI that can replace select() :)