[MPlayer-users] Re: Gentoo users beware: don't upgrade lame

[Felix von Leitner]

Thus spake Michael Waters (stonin at rogers.com):
> > > The current lame ebuild (I installed mine Dec 13) caused spontaneous
> > > segfaults in mencoder for me.  REmoving it and building lame myself
> > > fixed the problem.
> > Damn, that didn't solve it.  It just worked for a few hours, now I got a
> > segfault again.
> What version of lame are you using?

3.93

> mencoder with lame 3.92 was crashing for me with stuff like:
> ResvSizeInternal buffer inconsistency. flushbits <>

The lame FAQ says that that is caused by a gcc optimizer bug.

Unfortunately my problems look more and more like hardware problems. :(

Felix