Don't react so strongly to failure to bind the play server socket when starting a second player.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/tools/dcpomatic_player.cc b/src/tools/dcpomatic_player.cc
index c0587ed55..112f2c065 100644
--- a/src/tools/dcpomatic_player.cc
+++ b/src/tools/dcpomatic_player.cc
@@ -1150,8 +1150,15 @@ private:
 			}
 			_frame->Show ();
 
-			PlayServer* server = new PlayServer (_frame);
-			new thread (boost::bind (&PlayServer::run, server));
+			try {
+				auto server = new PlayServer (_frame);
+				new thread (boost::bind (&PlayServer::run, server));
+			} catch (std::exception& e) {
+				/* This is not the end of the world; probably a failure to bind the server socket
+				 * because there's already another player running.
+				 */
+				LOG_DEBUG_PLAYER ("Failed to start play server (%1)", e.what());
+			}
 
 			if (!_dcp_to_load.empty() && boost::filesystem::is_directory (_dcp_to_load)) {
 				try {