[MPlayer-users] Mplayer crashes with wmv-files

[Mats Rojestal]

mplayer "rocks" on my Athlon

MPlayer dev-CVS-040203-01:16-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton 1995 MHz (Family: 
6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

--Mats R

Stan Gammons wrote:

>Does it give a segmentation fault?
>
>I also have a problem with mplayer as well as Gmplayer running on an
>Athlon 700.  I've about concluded that it just doesn't work properly
>with any of the Athlon processors. Xine doesn't play the same wmv file
>either, so I think it's has something to do with the Athlon. I'm using a
>Matrox G200 video card with 8 mb of memory and a M7MKA motherboard with
>256 mb of memory.
>
>I can get mplayer to play wmv files IF i force it to use the proper
>codec, for example -vc wmv9dmo to play a wmv9 file. Nothing I have tried
>thus far has made the gui work. It just stops after it tried to load the
>skin from the second search directory. A control C does bring up a
>dialog box with a error message saying "mplayer interrupted by signal 2
>in module unknown.  I haven't tried compiling it without 3dnow and
>3dnow2 support. I may try that next and see if the same thing happens.
>
>Does anyone have mplayer or gmplayer working on an Athlon machine of any
>description?
>
>
>
>On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 16:45, Kimmo Vuorinen wrote:
>  
>
>>I am experiencing crashes playing window media files with mplayer cvs.
>>Quite many wmv files are causing crashes but all files will play after multiple tries.
>>    
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