[MPlayer-users] [BUG] Vorbis decoding causes crash

[Nico Sabbi]

Panagiotis Issaris wrote:

>Update: Okay, I just found out why it was playing okay on my Sempron and not
>on my other systems when updating the Sempron system to current CVS/SVN for
>x264, ffmpeg and mplayer: I was using the dynamic libav* libraries on the
>systems where it crashed and on the systems where it worked, I had copied
>the libavcodec, libavformat and libavutil directories into the mplayer
>directory. Okay, I knew it was recommended to use this method instead of
>using the dynamic libav* libs, but I figured that this was performance
>related. I didn't know using the dynamic libs would actually cause mplayer
>to crash for certain codecs on certain systems. While using dynamic libs
>on the Sempron system, AC3 and Vorbis decoding now also caused mplayer to
>crash, just as on the P4 and Athlon64 X2. So, it appears that on all my
>systems using libav*so causes mplayer to crash when decoding Vorbis and AC3
>files.
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this may or may not be related to your crashes, but when you use shared 
libav*
you have to configure ffmpeg's build with --enable-pthread