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BonnyFused

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Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« on: May 02, 2004, 05:33:42 PM »

When I do a "preview" of a movie, the aMule GUI is disabled but everything still works fine.
As I close the preview window (in my case: mplayer) the GUI *still* remains unusable, though it runs fine!

I have to wait until the *whole* preview chunk has been played!!!

Any help?

Thanks...
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2004, 10:50:02 PM »

easy help..same problem as with rc1 and rc2, although I don't know if this problem is caused by amule...

The Reason for your problem: as long as mplayer runs the GUI of amule is disabled. If you close mplayer, mplayer isn't really closed, but stays resident in memory, the process just doesn't terminate.

Solution: killall -9 mplayer should give you access to amule back :)
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2004, 11:33:57 PM »

Other solution : use xine instead of mplayer
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2004, 12:46:17 AM »

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Originally posted by OldFrog
Other solution : use xine instead of mplayer

Well, I'm getting a bit OT, but what do you all suggest as a video player on Linux?

VLC?
mplayer?
xine?

Any other?

Thank you...
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2004, 01:54:28 AM »

Why bother disabling the GUI in the first place?
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2004, 07:26:00 AM »

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Why bother disabling the GUI in the first place?

What do you mean?
You mean I should disable the GUI of mplayer? mmhhh..
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2004, 09:19:35 AM »

Sorry, should have been more clear - I mean, why did the developers of amule decide to disable the amule gui when you preview a file?
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2004, 09:59:30 AM »

"why did the developers of amule decide to disable the amule gui when you preview a file?" <- because for some reason, the movie player is forked instead of execved (this means that the movie playing process is executed as oart of the same process, instead of being run as a separate proccess). I asked on RC1 to not have it forked, but no one has coded that yet :-/  Just aks for it not to be forked... and I guess someone will hear ;-P

"Solution: killall -9 mplayer should give you access to amule back" <- Wrong. Well, not completely worng, but partially. That will work, but that's the BAD way. If you close MPlayer by clicking the X (close) button, for soem weird reason, one of the mplayer processes remains opened (I reported that bug to mplayer six months ago now... no answer). The solution is to close it by typing 'Q' when the player window is focused. That'll cleanly quit MPlayer, and aMule GUI will be available from the very first moment ;-)

Greetings!
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2004, 10:39:18 AM »

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The solution is to close it by typing 'Q' when the player window is focused. That'll cleanly quit MPlayer, and aMule GUI will be available from the very first moment ;-)

Greetings!

OK, I'll give it a try as soon as I get back home... I'll let you know if it works! :)

Thanks in the meantime...
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2004, 06:54:15 PM »

OK, I can confirm that quitting mplayer with 'q' works great and doesn't block/disable aMule's GUI.

Thank you guys!
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Re: Movie preview disables aMule GUI
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2004, 11:43:03 PM »

You're wellcome ;-)
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