[MPlayer-users] mplayer suddenly does not recognize keyboard input

[Alayne McGregor]

I'm hoping someone can help me with an abrupt change in mplayer behaviour.
I RTFMd and googled but couldn't find anything related to my problem.

I'm running MPlayer2 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2.

I use mplayer to play mp3, flac, and wav files (mostly mp3), from the
command line on my Ubuntu 14.04 system. I mostly am transcribing the
files, so I need to stop and start frequently and seek backwards and
forwards.

Up until this morning, it worked perfectly and was very useful.

This morning, when I played the mp3 file I was working on last night, the
audio played fine but mplayer didn't recognize _any_ normal keyboard input
(except CTL-C). I also got an error which I hadn't seen before: "Dead key
input on file descriptor 0".

I hadn't changed any of my mplayer options or setup.

Late last night after I finished my work, I did a standard update on my
machine, updating
- the kernel to 3.13.0-65-generic
- python-software-properties to 0.92.37.3
- libcuda1-340 to 340.76.0ubuntu0.1, 340.93.0ubuntu0.1
- nvidia-331 to 340.76.0ubuntu0.1, 340.93.0ubuntu0.1
- nvidia-340 to 340.76.0ubuntu0.1, 340.93.0ubuntu0.1 (plus several other
nvidia packages)
- software-properties-kde to 0.92.37.3, 0.92.37.5
- software-properties-common to 0.92.37.3, 0.92.37.5
This is all that I changed on my system.

If I run
mplayer -v --no-consolecontrols file.mp3
the fd0 error no longer appears and the characters are echoed (i.e. a
space shows up when I press the space bar), but mplayer still takes no
action in response to the keypresses.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour before? Is there any workaround,
please?

Alayne

[Floris]

Op Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:53:35 +0200 schreef Alayne McGregor

Post by Alayne McGregor
I'm hoping someone can help me with an abrupt change in mplayer
behaviour. I RTFMd and googled but couldn't find anything related to my
problem.
I'm running MPlayer2 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2.

mplayer2 isn't maintained any more. Both
https://github.com/mplayer2/mplayer2 and http://www.mplayer2.org/ are
abandoned. Version 2.0-701 is over two years old. So update to mplayer or
mpv (http://mpv.io)

success,

floris

[Alayne McGregor]

Thanks, Floris.

I did an apt-get purge on mplayer2 and installed Ubuntu's version of
mplayer, and that gave me an executable that worked again for my simple
needs. Thanks for the info.

Alayne

Post by Floris
Op Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:53:35 +0200 schreef Alayne McGregor

Post by Alayne McGregor
I'm hoping someone can help me with an abrupt change in mplayer
behaviour. I RTFMd and googled but couldn't find anything related to my
problem.
I'm running MPlayer2 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2.

mplayer2 isn't maintained any more. Both
https://github.com/mplayer2/mplayer2 and http://www.mplayer2.org/ are
abandoned. Version 2.0-701 is over two years old. So update to mplayer or
mpv (http://mpv.io)
success,
floris
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