Re: [SLUG] strange MPlayer GUI

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 19:28:30 EDT


>>I posted this in reply to the first MPlayer thread but figured it should
>>be a different one seeing as I got no reply from it being lost in the
>>original topic.
>>
>>
>>Since we've come into MPlayer, any idea why when I click to open a file
>>with the MPlayer GUI, it brings up the browse window and you can select
>>folders all day but when you want to click the address line to just type
>>the path......the visual goes haywire and blacks out the address bar??
>>Also in the configuration tabs it basically does the same thing ie
>>blacking parts out and doubling text next to itself. If I minimize and
>>maximize the window it goes away till I click again or try to type.
>>this happens on 3 different computers with three different hardware
>>setups and versions of SuSE. MPlayer GUI only. all other OS & program
>>GUI functions are fine.
>>
>>
>>
>
>I haven't a clue specifically why this would happen, but based on what
>you've said, I'd call it a flat out bug. And of course, the answer would
>be to upgrade to the next version. Or downgrade, if there is no next
>version in sight.
>
>

The mplayer gui has been historically buggy, because it's not a big
priority for most of the mplayer devs. There's a very good plugin for
xmms, however, that uses xmms to manage playlists, playback position,
things like that, while using mplayer on the backend.
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