[MPlayer-users] mplayer in slave mode

[Corey Hickey]

Theo Beisch wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> To whom it may concern:
> 
> Using Mplayer (0.92 - fresh built from the just downloaded source) with 
> 

Actually, 0.92 is really old, and considered obsolete as far as any
development is concerned. Try out 1.0pre3 or the latest CVS and see if
your problem still exists.

> 
> crashes Mplayer with the following message:
> 
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: key_events
> - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
>   Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
>   disassembly. For details, see DOCS/bugreports.html#crash.b.
> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>   It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc
>   version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read DOCS/bugreports.html
>   and follow the instructions there. We can't and won't help unless you
>   provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
> 

If your problem is still there with 1.0pre3, I would ask you: "Does
mplayer crash when you play the file directly, without slave?" If so,
read
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html

> 
> I am just starting to use Mplayer and I realize this may be an RTFM to my 
> account, however so far I could not find docs regarding the "loadfile" 
> command. Maybe somone can help before I dig deeper and provide all the debug 
> relevant infos per the readme.

Have you looked at /path/to/mplayer/source/DOCS/tech/slave.txt ? It
doesn't say anything unexpected about loadfile, but it's the right
document to look at, anyway.

> 
> Thanks ahead...
> Theo
> 

No problem.

-Corey