[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: ia2_tsr_land_r4c5a.mov crashes mplayer

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2007/3/28, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>:
> Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala <at> pp1.inet.fi> writes:
>
> > Do you have a reason to believe this is a problem in MPlayer? If it
> > "freezes your X server" that sounds more like your xv driver has a
> > problem with small images.
>
> I already played smaller gifs successfully.
>
> AFAICT it crashes swscaler, but I haven't been able to produce a minimal
> invocation.
>
> Original link:
> http://movies.apple.com/trailers/fox/ice_age_2/images5/ia2_tsr_land_r4c5a.mov
>
> Carl Eugen

If it was somebody else would have told him to read
DOCS/bugreports.html and follow the steps there.

Even if you X crashes, you can still run and debug mplayer from text
console, running as the same user who startx-ed. You may need to set
the DISPLAY env manually (it usually is :0.0 )

In case you cannot catch it with gdb, you can try to use the ultimate
debugging solution "valgrind". If your CPU doesn't have SSE I'd
recommend you to use the latest 2.x version instead of 3.x. (Now they
emulate all non SSE CPU as i586, I'm yet to find sense in that
decision).

I cannot notice or reproduce any problem, bug, our_of_memory_access or
even reading_uninitialized_memory, while running the sample from the
original link.
My cpu doesn't have SSE, so this may be it...