[MPlayer-users] problems with most avifile codecs(seg faults)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:32:37AM +0200, wil wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not able to get most of the the avifile codecs to work without seg 
> faulting.
> (see 2 verbose examples  below)
> asv1,asv2,ljpeg and  ffv1 work...the rest is a nono.
> As for the non lavc stuff, xvid works, divx4 doesn't.
> This might very well be me screwing things up or avifile stuff broken
> or whatever but i thought this might be the best place to ask
> Sorry for the long post.

avifile has absolutely nothing to do with mplayer.

> Debian SID.
> packages(including de non off. packages from http://marillat.free.fr/):
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Marillat packages are not supported. Build from source or else report
any bugs to the packager.

> ii libxvidcore-de 0.9.2-0.3 MPEG-4 Video encoder -- development files
> ii libxvidcore-do 0.9.2-0.0 MPEG-4 Video encoder - documentaton files
> ii libxvidcore2 0.9.2-0.3 MPEG-4 Video encoder
> ii libxvidencore0 0.9.1-0.2 MPEG-4 Video encoder
> ii avifile-divx-p 0.7.38.2003071 Divx4Linux video encoding plugin
> ii libdivxdecore0 5.0.1-1 DivX MPEG-4 Codec - decoder library
> ii libdivxencore0 5.0.1-1 DivX MPEG-4 Codec - encoder library
> ii avifile-xvid-p 0.7.38.2003071 XviD video encoding plugin
> ii avifile-mad-pl 0.7.38.2003071 MAD - MPEG audio plugin
> ii avifile-mjpeg- 0.7.38.2003071 MJPEG video plugin
> ii avifile-player 0.7.38.2003071 Video player for AVI/ASF/WMF files
> ii avifile-utils 0.7.38.2003071 Utility programs using the avifile library
> ii avifile-vorbis 0.7.38.2003071 Vorbis audio plugin
> ii avifile-win32- 0.7.38.2003071 Win32 audio/video plugin
> ii avifile-xvid-p 0.7.38.2003071 XviD video encoding plugin
> ii libavifile-0.7 0.7.38.2003071 Shared libraries for AVI read/writing
> ii  mencoder-686   1.0-pre2-0.0   MPlayer's Movie Encoder
> 
> From the divx site i got divx4linux-std-20030428.tar and ran
> the default install script.

Don't get divx4linux. It's not useful.

Rich