[MPlayer-users] xvid problems with 20030117

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Now I thought I would be happy with that CVS version. But soon I noticed that
> it could only play the XVid Movies. For Divx4/Divx5 Movies, I only get a black
> (correctly sized) window, the sound being correct. For some movies it even
> crashes after a quarter of a second, with the message "MPlayer interrupted by
> signal 11 in module: decode_video". This wasn't the case with 0.90rc2. So I
> had to recompile without XVid, which is a shame :-( I actually have to
> recompile  each time I want to watch a movie with one or the other codec,
> although I could of course spare me the compilation process and just make
> install in 2 different directories)
> 
> I've got xvid cvs 20030109. Non-Divx Movies (ie .mov files) work fine.
> 
> Do you know why it is so? Did I miss something? Do you want me to try that
> "debug+backtrace" stuff?
yes

and you should try to find the exact day when cvs became broken.
(by trying cvs snapshots, in binary search it shouldn't be more than 6 tries)

btw why don't you use libavcodec for xvid ad divx 3/4/5 playback?


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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