Mplayer/Xine question (segment fault).

yamaduc · 03-24-2004, 06:03 PM

I search the forums for Mplayer/Xine issues, didn't find anything similar to the issue I am having.

I can play most .WMV files, but others cause a segment fault.

I downloaded the latest codecs.

I'm running Fedora:

kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1
Mplayer mplayer-1.0-0.5.pre2.20031107.fr
Xine xine-0.9.23-1.fr

Still no luck.

Did MS add some encryption crap in the .WMV streams?

I use mplayer http://some-url.com/some-vid.wmv -dumpstream to save to my disk, then try to open the file and it segment faults.

Any ideas?

msafri · 03-24-2004, 09:19 PM

It is possible that the files that cause error may have been corrupted. I think Xine library has problems handling damaged files. You might wana try out a media file checker utility.

http://www.fixvideo.com
http://www.realconvert.com/MediaFixer/index.htm

Well they are the Windows version, I don't know any for linux.