ffplay causes sfml window to freeze and crash.

[Me-Myself-And-I]

Just  like the title says"ffplay causes sfml window to freeze and crash".Any ideas how to bypass or fix this problem?

[eXpl0it3r]

Are you processing events still?

I never used ffplay, so don't exactly know how its integrated, but you need to make sure that you're always processing events, otherwise the OS will detect the window as unresponsive.

[Me-Myself-And-I]

I figured out the problem.

Ffplay was run by running a batch file using system();
Inside the batch file was this which took parameters that were sent through system();.

@echo off

cd VIDEOS

ffplay -autoexit  -left %1  -top %2  -x %3 -y %4  %5

pause


Having pause at the end of the batch file was making the sfml window freeze until a key was pressed while the console was selected.I solved the issue by replacing pause with EXIT /B.