Hey guys I've been keeping up with slack current and I ran into a interesting problem today, when ever I play a video file (not dvd's) ex. avi, mpeg what ever it will always crash if I try to right click to change the video properties. If I hit the "F" button to go full screen it works fine, but something about right clicking on the window crashes video files. Any ideas are appreciated.

btw the error it give me is this...

[ws] Error in display. 0.000 ct: 0.028 37/ 37 4% 24% 0.6% 2 0
[ws] Error code: 191 ( RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) )
[ws] Request code: 158
[ws] Minor code: 7
[ws] Modules: vo_check_events

What version of mplayer are you using, and where/how did you get it ? (compile it ? from linuxpackages ? slackbuild ?)

I have the same thing happening here. Slackware -current, most recent version of mplayer built with slackbuild from slackbuilds.org. I also built it myself with checkinstall and the same thing happens.

Have you tried other versions of mplayer ?

I will try an older version of mplayer tomorrow and report back here.

My suggestion would be to try a source build of mplayer, as far as version, I am thinking whatever the latest of mplayer is.

I've been experiencing this for a couple of weeks, but I'm thus far unable to pinpoint the cause.
Here's the result of running it in gdb:

[ws] Error in display.
[ws] Error code: 178 ( RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) )
[ws] Request code: 155
[ws] Minor code: 7
[ws] Modules: (NULL)
Program exited normally.

strace results in this:

open("/usr/share/X11/XErrorDB", O_RDONLY) = 9
fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=37949, ...}) = 0
read(9, "! $Xorg: XErrorDB,v 1.3 2000/08/"..., 37949) = 37949
close(9) = 0
write(2, "[ws] Error in display.\n", 23[ws] Error in display.
) = 23
write(2, "[ws] Error code: 178 ( RenderBa"..., 71[ws] Error code: 178 ( RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) )
) = 71
write(2, "[ws] Request code: 155\n", 24[ws] Request code: 155
) = 24
write(2, "[ws] Minor code: 7\n", 20[ws] Minor code: 7
) = 20
write(2, "[ws] Modules: (NULL)\n", 22[ws] Modules: (NULL)
) = 22
exit_group(0)

Long story short, I'm thinking that it might actually be an xorg problem rather than an MPlayer problem, but I'm not sure where to go from here. I've just now generated those two traces, so this is the first time I've really tried any serious debugging - I've previously just assumed that the problem was isolated to me :-)

This is using the build script at http://rlworkman.net/slackbuilds/MPlayer/ (which allows MPlayer's configure to determine compiler flags and such, as recommended by the MPlayer devs).

Here are the circumstances in which I get the error:
First, play a video file (.mpg, .wmv, whatever). Let it finish or stop it manually - either one is fine. Right-click on the video window, and the expected new window outline appears, but MPlayer immediately crashes.

I can confirm that it happens with MPlayer RC1 and RC1 with CDDB patch, and with SVN version.

You can give smplayer a try, to see if it works.

I remember I had this crashing when rightclicking the MPlayer. But that was on Slackware 10.2... (with the MPlayer from LinuxPackages.net -I think). So I guess it's not related to current or the latest MPlayer.

The mplayerplug-in has started crashing firefox constantly as well. I don't know if it's related.

I'm using Alien's Bob MPlayer package on Slackware Current and it worked, no problem at all

I think it's a problem with a certain version of mplayer. If you get the right version (not the latest), then it'll work. Maybe mplayer-1.0rc1 is the right version. I recommend trying it and see if it stops crashing.

Except the same package worked fine earlier. It might well be an MPlayer problem, but it was only exposed after the -current updates from June 14th, 2007. I've asked in #mplayer on freenode with a link to this thread, but no responses thus far.

Right clicking on MPlayer I thought one would right click on the GUI MPlayer which is a command line of MPlayer?