On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:21:41AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:06:11PM -0500, STeve Andre' said that > > Frantisek, I think you are having weird hardware problems. > > I did what you have done on my -current system (A W500 thinkpad) > > and watched the video without incident. > > yes, this could very well be hw related. although i think > it is rather systematic for a memory related error, those > problems tend to be more random and a bit more difficult > to reproduce; this is systematic. > > the other reason i don't know where to look is simply that > i have used this notebook for almost 2 years now, and there > were no problems like this before. it is only the last couple > of snapshots, last mplayer update. it's all too easy to blame > the hw all the time...
mplayer has many knobs. try different video output. try disabling video. try disabling audio. maybe malloc.conf could be useful. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
