mplayer 1.0_rc2_p24929 sometimes crashes in mysterious ways, and sometimes just hangs, when using the "pulse" output driver. Apparently mplayer is calling the libpulse API without holding a necessary lock. Here is what the pulse guys have to say about this: http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/166 It looks like the mplayer guys checked in a similar patch for this on 2007-12-15, svn r25414. Perhaps a simple package update will fix this. It doesn't happen very often and is unpredictable, but it happens a few times a day during heavy use. Since it is locking-related, an SMP machine might be required to reproduce this... running on a dual core processor here. Both I and the reporter of the pulse trac ticket (above) are running on amd64, but I don't believe this is an amd64-specific issue. 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Created attachment 140146 [details, diff] mplayer-pulse.patch use pulseaudio && epatch "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-pulse.patch" This patch makes mplayer work reliably for me. It is the patch attached to the pulseaudio ticket, reissued to remove some line numbering fuzz.
Fixed in CVS, thanks Mark
