[MPlayer-users] Suse 10.0 glibc crash

[Giacomo Comes]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:05:31PM +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
> Giacomo Comes wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:05:18PM +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
> >  
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm trying to play an mpeg4 file using the packman package of mplayer on 
> >>Suse 10.0 and it (and others) are regularly crashing at startup with the 
> >>following output:
> >>
> >>   *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0874de28 
> >>   ***
> >>   MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: video_read_frame
> >>
> >>Now... I would compile the latest version of mplayer and try again but 
> >>the gcc version on Suse is not correct for this and I'm not enough of a 
> >>Linux expert to play around with changing the gcc version.
> >>    
> >
> >You don't need to replace gcc that came with suse.
> >Just compile one, install in a temporary place and use it to compile 
> >mplayer.
> >Example:
> >
> >#download gcc-core-3.4.0.tar.bz2
> >tar fjx gcc-core-3.4.0.tar.bz2
> >mkdir obj
> >cd obj
> >../gcc-3.4.0/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc
> >make bootstrap-lean CFLAGS='-O2' LIBCFLAGS='-O2' LIBCXXFLAGS='-O2 
> >-fno-implicit-templates'
> >make install
> >PATH=/tmp/gcc/bin:$PATH
> >#now the new gcc will be used instead of the default one
> >cd <MPlayer source>
> >./configure <options>
> >make
> >make install
> >
> >Giacomo
> >
> >  
> Thanks, I learned something today. I installed gcc 3.4.6. That got me 
> compiling but a get a new problem. Can you help resolve?
> 
> I used ./configure with no options, then make and I get a failure:
> 
> gcc -c -I../libvo -I../../libvo  -fno-PIC -O4 -march=pentium4 
> -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT 
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -I. -Inative -I.. 
> -I../libmpdemux -I../loader    -D_GNU_SOURCE -o ve_x264.o ve_x264.c
> ve_x264.c: In function `config':
> ve_x264.c:219: error: structure has no member named `i_rc_buffer_size'
> ve_x264.c:221: error: structure has no member named `i_rc_init_buffer'
> ve_x264.c:223: error: structure has no member named `i_rc_init_buffer'
> ve_x264.c:224: error: structure has no member named `i_rc_sens'
> make[1]: *** [ve_x264.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/philipp/Software/mplayer/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2/libmpcodecs'
> make: *** [libmpcodecs/libmpcodecs.a] Error 2
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil.

Probably you are using a recent x264 snapshot. It wont work with pre7.
I put an older one that works with pre7 in http://encode2mpeg.sf.net/x264/

Giacomo