[MPlayer-users] mplayer can't play WMV3 files

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 29 February 2004 at 11:38, Anders Misfeldt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I try playing wmv3 files on my Fedora Core 1 box (using
> MPlayer-1.0pre3), mplayer simply crashes with this error:
[...] 
> Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
>  
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec
[...]
> Segmentation fault
> 
> 
> A gdb backtrace gives:
> 
> Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
>  
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread -1084645216 (LWP 5270)]
> 0x0088149a in do_lookup_versioned () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> 
> So what's up? Why can't I play WMV3 files? When I try playing WMV1 or
> WMV2 files nothing's wrong. It's only WMV3 files.

This is a known problem with Fedora default setup (exec-shield) and
Windows DLLs. Search the archives for explanation and solution.

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