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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:37:27PM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:10:23 -0500
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > this is the exact same bug you've reported again and again. 
> 
> I may have a one-line mention of it occasionally, but this is only the
> second time I have ever reported it.  The first was a rather long
> thread, with lots of unnecessary info, and a bug that wasn't conistently
> reproducable with different sources.

OK. Fair enough.

> > 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.
> 
> And, what?  It's never going to be fixed by anyone, is that what you
> are trying to say?  Segfaults in mplayer are okay now?

No, I just don't understand the stupid code that was added to make
libmpeg2 0.4 happy with mpeg2-inside-avi.. It's a really ugly hack at
the demuxer level. If you'd like to investigate, the hack is at line
90 of libmpdemux/video.c.

Rich