diff audacious/playback.c @ 2128:a414866b32bc trunk

[svn] - bail after 15 failures to find an acceptable playback candidate

--- a/audacious/playback.c	Fri Dec 15 08:23:51 2006 -0800
+++ b/audacious/playback.c	Fri Dec 15 10:48:13 2006 -0800
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@
 {
     PlaylistEntry *entry = NULL;
     Playlist *playlist = playlist_get_active();
+    int penalty;
 
     if (playlist_get_length(playlist) == 0)
         return;
@@ -110,8 +111,21 @@
 
         entry = playlist_get_entry_to_play(playlist);
 
+	/* XXX ew. workaround for a stupid bug where audacious will keep 
+	 * trying to play a file with no valid decoder.
+	 */
         if (entry == NULL)
             return;
+
+	if (entry->decoder == NULL &&
+	    (entry->decoder = input_check_file(entry->filename, FALSE)) == NULL)
+	    penalty++;
+
+	/* if we hit 15 entries in a row with no valid decoder, just 
+         * bail due to confusion
+	 */
+	if (penalty > 15)
+	    return;
     }
 
     if (bmp_playback_get_time() != -1) {