Mat L

going to perform a needed update to python 3

last night I went to his place and he complained something new had started. The rendering of most movies would start out normal then slow down until the movie seemed paused on a single scene. Once he hit rewind to the beginning it started out and stayed normal. So after some quick testing with the options, changing the render back to "Default" made it work properly again, and putting it on gl(fast) made it fail to render. On my machine here, changing the render to gl or default seems to have no effect...

yes, it's true. By setting the render to gl(fast) on his machine it eliminated the black screen, so I suppose the ui bug went away with the old version of gnome and the black screen is fixed by changing the render. nuts!

well, to tell you the truth, I think the UI freezing has stopped. Perhaps it was related to the gnome version. But! not all is well, because instead the smplayer screen goes black and the audio plays, but the video doesn't. On my computer, it displays the video, using the exact same playback method. So, I tried playing it with just mplayer and it worked properly. Summary: mongol plays back perfectly on my computer, but on my friends computer smplayer shows a black screen. If I use mplayer on either...

I got the video file that makes my friends smplayer crash, but it won't make it crash on my machine. We're using the same linux and everything. Next, I will try the video just by itself on my friends computer, and finally the video in a very huge list. Probably going to take a bit to nail down the exact cause of the glitch.

Do you have an additional log you can post when the crash happens? Or any other details.

wow the bug is alot more difficult to trigger than I thought. I originally thought some packed B Frames would cause the error message to come up, but that doesn't work. I am tentatively saying the b frames in avi combined with thousands of entries in the playlist triggers it. We'll see....

I will get a copy of a video that makes smplayer crash. I have to go to my friends house, I know he has several that do it. I am a debugging champion, and this bug won't hide for much longer!