mplayer segfault in Etch

jlinkels · 02-04-2007, 01:29 PM

About two weeks ago I installed Etch from the netinstaller. Yesterday I installed mplayer from the Etch repository in debian-multimedia.

It segfaulted.

Then I did a dist-upgrade to the most current version of Etch. The problem disappeared and mplayer is running fine now.

Altough I am happy about this, it scares me anyway. I am running a number of machines, pure stable, mixed, pure testing, dist-upgraded to testing. In the past I *have* had machines on which I could not get mplayer running. The solution seems to be to compile it from source.

I did try that before the dist-upgrade using dpkg-buildpackage. However it seemed that I missed about half a billion dependencies:

Code:

Unmet build dependencies: libsvga1-dev | svgalibg1-dev liblircclient-dev libgtk2.0-dev 
libsdl1.2-dev libfaad-dev libxvmc-dev | xlibs-static-dev (<< 6.8.1-1) libsmbclient-dev libfribidi-dev 
ccache libggi2-dev libaa1-dev | aalib1-dev liblame-dev libdvdnav-dev libcdparanoia0-dev libxvidcore4-dev 
libdv-dev libavcodeccvs51-dev (>= 3:20070119-0.1) libcaca-dev liblivemedia-dev (>= 2004.05.01) em8300-
headers libdirectfb-dev libdvdread-dev libdts-dev libtheora-dev libx264-dev (>= 1:0.cvs20060720-0.0) 
libmpcdec-dev libpulse-dev libxxf86dga-dev | xlibs-
static-dev (<< 6.8.1-1) ladspa-sdk libvstream-dev libfaac-dev libtwolame-dev libavformatcvs51-dev (>= 
3:20070119-0.1) libavutilcvs49-dev (>= 3:20070119-0.1) libpostproccvs51-dev libspeex-dev

Since some of the version demands are very strict, I wonder if it is *ever* possible to compile the source in Etch. The source is only available as a Sid package, would that not presume a number of Sid libraries on the system. Is it worth to try and install these requirements, and will it ever compile?

jlinkels

kaz2100 · 02-05-2007, 03:28 PM

Hi,

I also have several troubles with mplayer package. So, I made similar decision. It compiles without problem on my penguins (sid, etch and sarge).

Visit following.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

Happy Penguins!

nx5000 · 02-06-2007, 05:14 AM

Did anyone thought about submitting a bug to the BTS?

Additionnaly for a segfault, it can be tracked down by using strace.
An ldd on mplayer would also help to see if there are some missing libraries.

craigevil · 02-06-2007, 08:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nx5000

Did anyone thought about submitting a bug to the BTS?

Additionnaly for a segfault, it can be tracked down by using strace.
An ldd on mplayer would also help to see if there are some missing libraries.

Since mplayer is now in Debian non-free if there are problems filing a bug report is probably a good idea.

Looks like there is already at least one report about segfaulting.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407010

nx5000 · 02-06-2007, 10:39 AM

Hum I get this

Playing lol-mplayer.ogg.
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll

I wonder if I can get this avisynth.dll somewhere...

craigevil · 02-08-2007, 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nx5000

Hum I get this

Playing lol-mplayer.ogg.
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll

I wonder if I can get this avisynth.dll somewhere...

Take a look here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=325288&page=2

nx5000 · 02-08-2007, 04:45 AM

Thanks

http://sam.zoy.org/ is not available so I can't get the lol files.

I'm running this version:

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz (Family: 6, Model: 9, Stepping: 5)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

$apt-show-versions -a mplayer
mplayer 1:1.0-rc1cvs20070118-0.2 install ok installed
mplayer 1.0~rc1-12 unstable
mplayer 1:1.0-rc1cvs20070118-0.2 sid
mplayer/sid uptodate 1:1.0-rc1cvs20070118-0.2

craigevil · 02-08-2007, 11:01 AM

You can download avisynth from here. Also you can visit the Avisynth HomePage.

On their Sourceforge download page, click AviSynth 2 NOT 2.5. Then, download the dll file of version 2.0.5. NOT 2.0.6 or later, because they have an install system in place. Any version before that has a separate file with the dll in it. Then just extract the dll to whatever directory your codecs are in!

nx5000 · 02-08-2007, 11:28 AM

Yes thanks I did it.

Hummmm I now have the devil in my machine.

A dll!!!