[vlc-devel] VLC-1.0.5 Porting Issues on OpenBSD

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Tuesday 06 April 2010 02:52:17 Edd Barrett, you wrote:
> It seems the hotkeys plugin is waiting for a thread. The line of code which
>  we never get past (in the vlc tree atleast) is this:

What do you mean? The hotkeys plugin in versions 0.9.x and 1.0.x runs a thread 
that simply loops on a condition variable waiting for a key press event.

It's perfectly normal for it to stay put for extended period of times - as 
long as you don't press any key while a video widget has focus.

(...)
> I spoke to a dev on your IRC channel and he informs me that this
> section of code is vastly changed in trunk.

In 1.1, there is no hotkeys thread anymore. Key presses are processed 
synchronously instead.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont