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I am having problems with mplayer crashing when viewing certain types of wmv files. Following is the message I recieve when I run it from a command line.
Playing Family Guy - All Are beutiful.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
============ ASF Stream group == START ===
object size = 38
stream count=[0x2][2]
stream id=[0x1][1]
max bitrate=[0x4508][17672]
stream id=[0x2][2]
max bitrate=[0x221a4][139684]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===
VIDEO: [WMV3] 320x240 24bpp
Clip info:
name:
author:
copyright:
comments:
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 1 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 2000->32000 (16.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg))
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
Segmentation fault
I have installed the extralite rpm and several codecs. Listed below are all of the codecs in my /usr/lib/win32 directory. I installed mplayer using synaptic over apt. I am running fedora core 1.0 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I had a similar problem, try playing the wmv as root, if it works then you have the same problem I had, though right now I can't remember on top of my head how I fixed it.
just for troubleshooting purposes, just because i have no idea why that is happening, but maybe try a different video output ...
type :
mplayer -vo help
to get a list of the different ones ... i think its using x11 by looking at the output ...
so maybe try something like :
mplayer -vo xv movie.wmv
Originally posted by Demonbane I had a similar problem, try playing the wmv as root, if it works then you have the same problem I had, though right now I can't remember on top of my head how I fixed it.
I have the same problem, mplayer will play wmv fine as either root or my user, but xine will only play some of my wmv files as root. Is there any way you can figure out what you did?
Originally posted by DrOzz just for troubleshooting purposes, just because i have no idea why that is happening, but maybe try a different video output ...
type :
mplayer -vo help
to get a list of the different ones ... i think its using x11 by looking at the output ...
so maybe try something like :
mplayer -vo xv movie.wmv
and see if you have any change ..
Thread resuresction here.. I have the same problems as eddyh.. I tried with mplayer -vo xv [moviename].wmv but the result was still the same failure..
Code:
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
External func OLEAUT32.dll:8
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
Segmentation fault
Still no go? My past experiences trying to get MPlayer working from source leave me quite a bit less than eager to "Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug ..."
Any help or pointing in the right direction is much appreciated..
This is with FC2 with fresh "yum update"... this is the first time I've ever encountered a video that MPlayer can't play.. :/ I scoured the net for codecs about a year ago..
Hi, this is a long shot I guess as this thread seems to have gone quiet - but I have a similar problem where I can't play any .wmv or .wma (or real player for that matter) files at all, no matter if I use xine or mplayer - or indeed any media player like vlc.
I know I need to have the latest win32 drivers installed - which I do have
I also have the latest version of xorg and the ATI drivers installed - so it makes no sense to me why I should be unable to play these files.
It seems to insinuate that compiler version issues are at the root of the problem somehow.. and that a recompile is necessary in order to fix it.
A recompile of Mplayer (which I installed through Yum) is not exactly a convenient or newbie-friendly process, and I seem to recall that a compile of mplayer can be an especially tedious and trying process. I'm still on Fedora Core 2, and I doubt there's going to be any more work put into updating FC2 packages when FC4 is due out soonish.. so I guess I'm S.O.L. until I go to FC3 or FC4.. or whatever..
It seems to insinuate that compiler version issues are at the root of the problem somehow.. and that a recompile is necessary in order to fix it.
A recompile of Mplayer (which I installed through Yum) is not exactly a convenient or newbie-friendly process, and I seem to recall that a compile of mplayer can be an especially tedious and trying process. I'm still on Fedora Core 2, and I doubt there's going to be any more work put into updating FC2 packages when FC4 is due out soonish.. so I guess I'm S.O.L. until I go to FC3 or FC4.. or whatever..
Anybody have easier solutions?
compiling mplayer is not that hard. regarding compiling, yeah you will have some hard times when starting out but that's how you learn. after awhile, it becomes second nature.
make sure you have a development environment ( if you have compiled things before you should have everything you need), if you want a gui make sure you have gtk+-1.2.x-devel and glib-1.2.x-devel, and optionally libpng-devel installed.
then ./configure --prefix=<xxx> --enable-gui --with-codecsdir=<xxx>
if you already have the win32codecs installed make sure you put that directory above for codecsdir. it's a good idea to always do ./configure --help and see what you want/don't want too.
No, audio is fine. It's segfaulting on init_video_codec. If you delete/move/rename the offending codec, it will play the audio just fine (and it won't play any video).
I'm not going to recompile it. I've done recompiles before, and dependency chasing is not how I want to spend my time. Edit: I've also heard "but it's better now.." before too..
It would be neat if there was a "yum" type utility for dependency chasing with recompiling, heh.. <joke>I guess there is, called "Gentoo"..</joke>
Note: I don't mean to be offensive or dismissive to anybody's advice or to linux or people who have the skills and patience to do lots of compiling by hand. I'm just not going to bother with recompiles on a package-managed system. In my experiences it was a pain and could royally fubar the package manager for the future.
Last edited by clausawits; 05-26-2005 at 11:29 AM.
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