[MPlayer-users] [BUGREPORT] MPlayer segfaults on MPEG1/2 in AVI with high framerate

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:50:19PM -0800, RC wrote:
> When encoding video to MPEG1/2 in AVI with mencoder, specifying a higher
> framerate than the source consistently causes MPlayer to segfault. 
> 
> Here's an example command-line to produce a test file:
> 
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vstrict=-1
> dvd://1 -ofps 60
> 
> Playing the file back test.avi with mplayer causes a segfault.  See
> attached gdb output for more.

this is the exact same bug you've reported again and again. mencoder
puts a zero-size frame at the beginning and then mplayer is so broken
that the stupid hackish code to process mpeg2-in-avi crashes when the
first frame isn't there.

rich