[MPlayer-users] mplayer svn crashes with -vo null

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:34:24PM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> I built mplayer from svn: MPlayer SVN-r30385-4.3.3 and it crashes
> consistently with -vo null.  Other outputs are fine.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?
> 
> The full command is:
> 
> mplayer dvdnav://1  -dvd-device /dev/myth/dvd -ss 700 -frames 30 -vf
> cropdetect -ao null -vo null
> 
> It works fine with -vo x11 and others.

There's a good reason you should always include the full mplayer output.
It will say something like
VO: [null] 352x288 => 352x288 Mpeg PES 
which obviously shows something is very wrong.
In addition it will only crash with cropdetect.