On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:08:43PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:53:18AM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote:
> > Since the last update mplayer started crashing every time I try playing
> > a video file. The package is: mplayer-1.0pre8p14-sdl. The platform is
> > amd64. Here is the error message and the dmesg:
> >
> > AVI file format detected.
> > AVI: Generated index table for 132376 chunks!
> > VIDEO: [XVID] 640x336 12bpp 23.976 fps 687.8 kbps (84.0 kbyte/s)
> > Clip info:
> > Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
>
> just FYI, I found some similarly encoded XviD files, and the video
> playback is much smoother with kaffeine than mplayer.
>
> I would suggest trying kaffeine, to see if this is a problem with
> mplayer, or somehow something broke with your video card and X in
> general.
kaffeine, vlc et others play them just fine. mplayer is the only one
crashing.