Mplayer plugin crash

dive · 01-26-2006, 06:32 AM

I've had quite a few embedded videos freeze up my pc to the point where I have to use the reset button.

Just wondered if anyone else has anything like this? Got latest mplayer plugin 3.17 and MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.6

Heres an example: http://www.weakgame.com/media_6607_A...ommercial.html

dive · 01-26-2006, 08:09 AM

I see this post has been viewed several times now. Does anyone else get problems with that link? At least that would show whether its just me or not

Lenard · 01-26-2006, 08:16 AM

No problem other then the fact it's an wmv file playing.....

I'm rpm based but I have the same versions (basically) installed;

mplayer-1.0-0.20.pre7.2.fc4.x86_64.rpm
mplayer-codecs-20050412-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-extra-20050412-1.i386.rpm
mplayerplug-in-3.17-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

dive · 01-26-2006, 06:19 PM

Downloaded the file, tried to play and it seems to a problem with mplayer itself. PLays ok in xine and I seem to have had this problem since installing an audigy 4. So I've no idea what to do except take a chance on whether it will crash or not. Xine plugin doesnt seem to work at all.

Tried installing your 2 codec packs and any others I could find. Updated Alsa in case they have updated my module. Reinstalled mplayer. Nothing works.

MS3FGX · 01-26-2006, 09:04 PM

Mplayerplug-in crashes randomly for me on many videos, I have no idea why.

chess · 01-26-2006, 09:33 PM

I was able to view the commerical without any problems using the mplayer plugin.

dive · 01-27-2006, 03:03 PM

Well I found a solution of sorts:
I found that I could play the file offline using the opengl driver, so I added vo=gl into ~/.mplayer/config and now it plays the video but in a separate window rather than embedded in the web page.

Seems xv driver is to blame so I will see about updating that, but at least it hasnt crashed yet (touch wood)

kdekorte · 01-29-2006, 12:41 PM

Upgrade your version of mplayer.

dive · 01-29-2006, 02:54 PM

Latest (MPlayer v1.0pre7try2) does the same :/

kdekorte · 02-26-2006, 01:50 PM

Try mplayerplug-in 3.21 and mplayer from CVS and see if you still have problems. mplayer 1.0pre7try2 is REALLY old and has alot of problems.

dive · 02-26-2006, 02:53 PM

Thx that solved it although it refuses to compile with gui - says it needs libpng and libpng-devel but I have both

cathectic · 02-26-2006, 04:54 PM

Add this line to your ./configure line:

Code:

--with-extraincdir=/usr/include/libpng12/

dive · 02-26-2006, 05:25 PM

Configure now works thx, but make is stopping on error:

/usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `pango_font_get_font_map'
/usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `pango_fc_font_create_metrics_for_context'
/usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `pango_matrix_get_font_scale_factor'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [mplayer] Error 1

Maybe I need to update pango but I'm not really bothered about the gui really - I tend to use xine more and just want mplayer for firefox.