[Openchrome-users] [openChrome] #337: X locks up under full screen mplayer on vx800

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#337: X locks up under full screen mplayer on vx800
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 Reporter:  padgettr         |        Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect           |       Status:  new     
 Priority:  minor            |    Component:  xv      
  Version:  trunk            |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  VX800, xv, NC20  |     Blocking:          
Blockedby:                   |  
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Comment(by padgettr):

 Replying to [comment:17 simon_h]:
 > Replying to [comment:15 padgettr]:
 >
 > > use xine instead - doesn't crash!
 > >
 > > So i'm sorry guys might not be a bug with openchrome at all, but it
 looks like a combination of mplayer/dwm - xine/dwm was fine and did not
 lock up. Thanks for your help though - I'll continue to play with this as
 time allows and let you know if I find anything which definitely points to
 the openchrome driver, but for now I'm not sure that this is the problem.
 Sorry for any inconvenience...
 > >
 > > If Simon agrees, I'd like to change this to invalid/fixed for now?
 > >
 > > Rod.
 > >
 >
 > Sorry for the wait.
 >
 > I can confirm this for wmii: No crashes with xine. But this supports
 what I said before: the xine window is managed differently by the window
 manager when switching back from fullscreen (still floating, for mplayer
 it becomes one of the tiled windows (even if it wasn't before going to
 fullscreen)). So I still believe this is related to some rescaling of the
 video.
 >
 >
 >
 > Replying to [comment:16 padgettr]:
 >
 > > One other thing I found, if you want to use mplayer - try pausing the
 video before switching to full screen - it doesn't lock up. As long as you
 remember to pause before changing between full screen/window, everything
 is fine!
 >
 > Thanks for this hint.
 >
 >
 >
 > So do you think we should report this somewhere else? Where?
 >
 >
 > Simon

 I don't know - I don't think its an mplayer issue because mplayer works
 fine on 3 other computers I use, all using dwm, and one of them with a
 unichrome pro chip, so I'm even using this driver. That's what made me
 think it was a vx800 issue in the first place... but then why does xine
 work? And don't forget, I also tried with no window manager, just X and
 mplayer, and it still locked up, so it's not dwm either. I still think it
 might be some kind of timing issue - that would explain why pausing the
 video prevents the lock-up - but it is just the combination of vx800 - dwm
 - openchrome; I can't separate these! If I get time over christmas I will
 try the via drivers on i686 (if I can get them to work) - at least that
 would tell if it openchrome or not.

 I have mplayer set as a floating window in dwm, but the lock-up still
 occurs... but I think your right, mplayers window type is different to
 xine's.

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