Bug#640889: smplayer: unresponsive UI, uses 100% CPU

[Rogério Brito]

Hi there.

On Sep 08 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-09-08 10:36 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > Opening any file results in the UI becoming unresponsive and smplayer
> > using 100% CPU until I kill it.
> >
> > Maybe this problem is related to the libav 0.7 transition, since it only
> > showed up recently.
> 
> FWIW, the problem might be related to mplayer, because…
> 
> > ii  mplayer         2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn33713-2
> 
> …it went away after I replaced mplayer with mplayer2.

Just as an extra data point, I have *exactly* the same problem, with exactly
the same symptom and changing to mplayer2 also works around the problem with
smplayer.

Unfortunately, installing mplayer2 forces the uninstallation of mplayer,
which makes gecko-mediaplayer also be uninstalled, but that's another
matter.


Regards,

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