If I display the "file info" in the playlist, playback of the stream is paused. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: The playback is paused. Expected Results: Playback should continue.
does this happen to you on anything other than network streams? that's the only time it happens for me, and i'm not sure that there's anything i can do about it.
Streams only.
mm, yeah, i have a feeling that reading the file info for the network stream blocks the main xine engine, then the input buffer gets starved, and it stops. i don't know that there's anything i can do about that, aside from using an entirely new xine instance for fetching file info, which adds unacceptable memory overhead. i'll leave this open for a while in case i have the chance to do more research, but likely this is a WONTFIX.
Well, if it's Xine bug, why not reporting it to Xine people?
(In reply to comment #4) > Well, if it's Xine bug, why not reporting it to Xine people? Not a bad idea, though I'm not sure it's a bug per se... It seems more like this just isn't something they intended you to be able to do. We'll see.
it appears that xine sets the speed of the stream to "paused" in this case. perhaps disk i/o is blocked while we're opening the other stream, and the buffer runs out, and xine pauses. i dunno. at any rate, i committed a workaround for this, so the bug shouldn't show up anymore - it's not even audible for me now.