[MEncoder-users] mplayer cannot play AC3 anymore

[Nico Sabbi]

Stefan Frings wrote:

>Hi,
>I just uploaded the first 4MB of one problematic movie. The filename is 
>ac3_crash.mpg
>
>I'm familiar with C programming but I never used the debugger. I think I will 
>learn it in near future. 
>
>I followed your debug instructions step by step. This is what I got:
>
>Starting playback...
>
>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>[Switching to Thread -1221443456 (LWP 22192)]
>0xb7e7cdc7 in a52_free () from /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so
>(gdb) bt
>#0  0xb7e7cdc7 in a52_free () from /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so
>#1  0xb7e7bd2a in a52_block () from /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so
>#2  0x080e2a07 in decode_audio (sh_audio=0x0, buf=0x83bea00 "", minlen=65536, 
>maxlen=71680) at ad_liba52.c:309
>#3  0x080e204d in decode_audio (sh_audio=0x83b0ae0, buf=0x83ddc98 "", 
>minlen=71680, maxlen=65536)
>    at dec_audio.c:398
>#4  0x080769fb in main (argc=3, argv=0xbffffb14) at mplayer.c:2251
>(gdb) disass $pc-32 $pc+32
>  
>

not reproducible

>I cannot follow the next steps because I did not find a core file. Do I need 
>to enable it somewhere?
>
>I saw that the program crashed in livavcodec.so. I installed ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1 
>which included the following files. Do you have another version?
>  
>
libavcodec.so is not supported mplayer/mencoder.
You should uninstall the packetized ffmpeg and follow the instructions to
statically compile a fresh cvs checkout of both mplayer and 
libavcodec/libavformat