[vlc-devel] Avoiding some crashes on maemo platforms

[Remi Denis-Courmont]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 00:14:45 +0200, lokidor <lokidor at lokiserv.ath.cx>
wrote:
> This a backport of a patch for mplayer on the maemo platform (Nokia
> Internet Tables N770/800/810).
> 
> Maemo’s Xv had a problem with X errors resulting sometimes in the crash
> of applications using it.
> The tip is to simply ignore X errors, this is explained here (thank's
> morpheuz) :
> http://labs.morpheuz.eng.br/blog/14/08/2007/xv-and-mplayer-on-maemo/
> 
> I got the same error with vlc, so I made this patch and it works.

Yeah, but I think it will cause VLC to crash when run through SSH such that
MIT-SHM is not available. Is there any reason why you skip the MIT-SHM
error handling???

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Rémi