Re: [gentoo-misc] gentoo freezes when playing video

[Emil B. <d9...@na...>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Jean Pierre wrote:

[mplayer problems with &]
> !?!! My fault...I should have tested that before !
> You're right, I can reproduce the same behavior with your script.
> I've done a little search and haven't found anything about this
> behavior...

Me neither. And, actually, even the "mpw" script is overkill; it's
enough to just run mplayer directly with & to reproduce the problem.
I'm not sure if that, technically, is the exact same situation,
though.

It could also be possible that this behavior is somehow the desired
one for mplayer, that it shouldn't open a window when run in the
background can be seen as logical. Still, it's odd that it occurs
when mplayer is the child process of a process that is running in the
background.

> Anyway, I don't know if it's related but when I double-click on a .mov
> file (let's say toto.mov, which is a movie) _without_ having associated
> it with a 'video type' first, then the gentoo process suddenly takes
> 100% of CPU and doesn't want to stop.
> If I associate .mov files with 'video type' (with Configure|Files
> Associations|Types), then mplayer is launched successfully and
> everything is fine.

No, this is certainly not the expected behavior. It shouldn't be
related either, since, well, you're not running mplayer. :) Does it
happen *only* for these ".mov" files?

> I was expecting some kind of 'no program is associated with this file'
> error message but maybe this behavior is normal ? I don't know maybe
> gentoo is scanning the whole content of the file to guess its type (but
> I doubt that, the file is really small).

The expected behavior would be for gentoo to match the Unknown file
style, which has hex viewing as its default View action. At least I
think that's what it should do. Unfortunately, since gentoo has this
catch-all of a rule, it cannot open a "Unknown file type" dialog of
the kind you describe.

> As usual, let me know if I can do anything to isolate the problem...

Well, if the file truly is small (say, no larger than ~250 KB) you
could mail it to me so I can test it for myself.

Regards,

/Emil