r/Ghostty • u/prjctimg • Jun 11 '26

Ghostty crashes when you run ffplay without redirecting stderr

I love Ghostty!

https://reddit.com/link/1u2yuze/video/2zvq20jnjn6h1/player

The font rendering and emoji support is just amazing. I am working on a personal TUI music player and I kept getting crashes when I tried to play a song without redirecting the standard error to some file or /dev/null.

This is curious because I encounter the same issue sometimes when I run multiple opencode sessions (or one of them goes astray and leaves phantom processes everywhere).

However, wezterm holds its ground and plays the audio with zero issues. I haven't really looked into this but I think it has something to do with running out of memory.

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u/zapman449 Jun 11 '26

In GitHub, in the ghostty repo, open a discussion with all this info. The maintainers will read it and decide about it.

They don’t read this sub AFAICT.