mplayer pauses when holding a window

Harald Servat redcrash at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 07:49:19 UTC 2008


Hi,

2008/6/5 Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>:

> I could not reproduce this with fvwm and mplayer (without esoud). But
> I am aware of following (fv)wm/Xorg issue/bug/feature: if you
> configured your window manager to not display window when moving it
> (instead wm display frame) all Xorg windows will be put in suspend
> state (music will stop playing, and such ...)
>

  Paul, you hit the nail on the head.
  I have "Metacity>Reduced resources" enabled in the Gnome Configurator. If
I disable it, this issue disappear.

Regards,


>
> On 6/5/08, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:49:12AM +0200, Harald Servat wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>   today I was running mplayer playing an streaming url (just audio).
> There
> >> was a moment that I holded a(ny) window (i.e., click to move) for a long
> >> time (about 10-15s) and mplayer paused.
> >>   Have anyone experienced this issue?
> >>
> >>   I'm running mplayer-0.99.11_4 (I configured it to use esound),
> >> gnome2-lite-2.22.0, xorg 7.3 on FreeBSD 7.0 (ULE)/ia32.
> >
> > This is normal behavior and I think this is a Window Manager issue, not
> > a FreeBSD issue.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Rui Paulo
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