[MPlayer-users] corrupted movie file crashes mplayer

[Sandip Khara]

Hello mplayer team,
Mplayer is my most favourite movie player. I have been using version
1.0pre7for a long time. It played quite well with all files. The only
problem was
with a corrupted mpg file --- independence_day.mpg. This has been copied
from a rented CD. A very little portion of the file except the rest is
corrupted and there I just see colouring checks and sounds like ---- clitch
clatch !!! Then I just see slanting coloured lines and the mplayer stops
responding. Then the only way is to kill the mplayer process. The same file
when played by xine, it manages that portion by dropping frames. This
message of frame dropping is given by xine as a warning pop up message box
and on closing that window the rest part continues to play very smoothly. I
tried to re-encode that file using mencoder. But it goes segmentation fault
on reaching that bad part. While trying to encode with ffmpeg, it displayed
frame motion out of boundary message, but didn't crashed. I have also tried
the rpm. There also the same problem existed.
On 3rd May 2006 I have downloaded the cvs version. But that didn't crashed
but still continued displaying coloured checks, and the -- clitch clatch
sound. But after starting to display slanting coloured lines the movie
continues playing as I can know from the sound. Also all the hot-keys
worked. But the display remained in that condition even if I move to the
good part using cursor keys.
Since I have dial up internet Its not possible for me to upload the sample.
I have seen that about a 30 mb of file need to be uploaded for including
some clear portion with the corrupted. But I am ready to help you. If you
need any other info then please tell me the steps to generate the bug report
except uploading the sample.

Many thanks to mplayer team and best wishes.

indiansandip at gmail.com