[MPlayer-users] Mencoder segfaults when using ffmpeg

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:22:06PM -0800, Steven Ellis wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I can't seem to be able to convert anything to ffmpeg
> based codecs using ffmpeg. It always core dumps 
> (segfault) in the ffmpeg code.
> 
> My system is a Athlon 2K XP running RH 7.2 and I built
> MPLayer RC4 using the RH 7.2 GCC 3.0 release. At
> present I can't really upgrade the version of GCC on
> this machine so i'm open to other options.

This version of gcc is KNOWN to be buggy. Perhaps you should try using
the RPMs if you can't get a working compiler installed on your system.

Rich