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

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:48:44AM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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

why?

rich