[Gnash-dev] "refreshing video frame for the first time"

[strk]

I took a look at that annoying debugging message from NetStream:
"refreshing video frame for the first time".

The rationale for the code that trigger that message is that
when video first starts we want to show a video frame, even
*before* the buffer  (possibly user-specified) is not full.
This was tested as expected behaviour (probably to avoid user
starving at a black screen while the buffer gets ready).

I now see that the way NetStream checks for that video frame
existance isn't correct anymore.  It probably was when I first
wrote that code but was changed later. Basically m_imageframe
member of NetStream was not-null after first frame was decoded,
while it is now an auto_ptr thus made null whenever the Video
DisplayObject fetches a frame. Do you remember any change made
about that yourself Ben ?

The fix would then now be to add a flag to represent whether or
not a video frame for the current movie was ever fetched for
display. I'm writing here rather then fixing because I don't have
much time for Gnash hacking lately so I hope someone else can
take care of that. At worst, I'll have a record to know what to do
when I find more time...


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