Testers needed! [was: Portupgrade of mplayer to latest version is still broken]

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Sun Oct 12 11:48:07 PDT 2003


On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:38:17 -0400, Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

>>> (10.12.2003 @ 1414 PST): Jeremy Messenger said, in 2.8K: <<
>> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:54:36 +0200, Thomas E. Zander <riggs at rrr.de> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi folks,
>> >
>> >can somebody please see if Stacey's problem is reproducable?
>>
>> Nope, I can't reproduce his problem and I am trying to help over at
>> bsdforums.org too. MPlayer runs great here, but it has very few annoy 
>> bugs
>> such as error message with Metacity if I move gmplayer around and I 
>> can't
>> do the full screen while I play movie. If I stop the movie, then do the
>> full screen and play movie then it works fine. It seems like it's mostly
>> related with the WM stuff.
>
> I've had good luck getting it fullscreen by selecting "fullscreen" from
> the menu instead of by hitting 'f'. This is under fluxbox-devel FWIW.

It runs fine with fluxbox-devel (0.9.6pre9, my own modified port) here 
too, but not with Metacity/Gnome2. Look forward for 1.0 with the fixes 
stuff, thanks for info Thomas.

Cheers,
Mezz

> # Adam
>
>
>>
>> =================================
>> Window manager warning: Window 0x2200011 (MPlayer) sets an MWM hint
>> indicating it isn't resizable, but sets min size 1 x 1 and max size
>> 2147483647 x 2147483647; this doesn't make much sense.
>> Window manager warning: Window 0x2200011 (MPlayer) sets an MWM hint
>> indicating it isn't resizable, but sets min size 1 x 1 and max size
>> 2147483647 x 2147483647; this doesn't make much sense.
>> [...goes on...]
>> =================================
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>> >I am not able to get mplayer showing the problem described below.
>> >For me it works perfectly with gui, without gui and almost any media
>> >file existing on my harddisk.
>> >So it's pretty hard to figure out without more useful information.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Riggs
>> >
>> >On Sun, 12. Oct 2003, at 13:23 +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote
>> >according to [Portupgrade of mplayer to latest version is still 
>> broken]:
>> >
>> >>>Description:
>> >>Portupgraded mplayer to the latest in ports yesterday (Sat 11th Oct
>> >>2003), but I am still having the same problems as reported in
>> >>"ports/57622: Portupgrade to latest mplayer version breaks 
>> application"
>> >>
>> >>Here is the version output I have with the latest version installed 
>> via
>> >>portupgrade:
>> >>
>> <snip>
>> >>
>> >>Again, here is a synopsis of what I'm getting:
>> >>
>> >>Running gmplayer -v brings up the output above in the terminal from
>> >>which the cmd is run
>> >>The GUI player is launched
>> >>Initially, leaving the player alone, it looks fine
>> >>If I click on the folder list button the the folder listing of my home
>> >>dir appears
>> >>If I attempt to reposition the GUI player, then the border around the
>> >>player itself disappears, and all buttons cease to work - including 
>> the
>> >>previously working folder listing button
>> >>By this time, if there is a file that is playing none of the file
>> >>control buttons work (STOP, PAUSE, etc)
>> >>The player is unable to play any .WAV files, .asf & .avi files. There
>> >>might well be others, but these are the ones that I have been unable 
>> to
>> >>play so far.
>>
>>
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