[MPlayer-users] annoying mplayer crash related somehow to subtitles, menu & fifo

[The Wanderer]

Roberto DeLeo wrote:

> Hi, I noticed the following annoying problem with the most recent
> versions of mplayer (I verified it happens on both mplayer 1.0rc2 and
> the latest svn checkout [dev-SVN-r25878])

> BTW, I'm sure that this was not happening in mplayer 0.92 but I've
> been quite busy since mplayer 1.0* releases started getting out and
> so I have no idea when this bug appeared.
> 
> Any help in fixing this bug would be greatly appreciated!

You can provide no small amount of help yourself, by doing two things.

One, do a regression test: check out and compile older versions of
MPlayer from SVN in a binary-search fashion until you find out exactly
which revision caused the breakage. With such a wide range to search in,
it will take more tests than usual, but the advantage of binary search
is that it narrows the range down quickly.

Two, and much more important: follow the directions printed at the time
of crash, which were part of the output you posted and which I have left
in the quote below.

> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter_video
> - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
>   Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
>   disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>   It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
>   gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
>   DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
>   won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

The last sentence is important, but somehow almost everyone manages to
miss reading it...

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