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

[Reinhard Tartler]

reassign 640889 mplayer,smplayer
stop

On Mo, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:20:42 (CEST), Rogério Brito wrote:

> 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.

Okay, this is an interoperability issue then. Let's mark them
appropriately.

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

Can you please file a bug on gecko-mediaplayer to change its
dependencies to allow it to work with mplayer2? Thanks.

Cheers,
Reinhard

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