[MPlayer-users] Mplayer crashes when trying to play hd content on osx

[Dave Chand]

On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:10:01PM -0400, Dave Chand wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:30 AM, Lauri Hahne wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having problems trying to play hd videos on osx 10.5.8. Mplayer
>>> appears to crash when opening a window for video. This happens
>>> irrespective of whether I use gcc-4.0 or gcc-4.2 and is easily
>>> reproducible by downloading any 1080p Apple trailer from
>>> hd-trailers.net.
>>
>> I am having the same exact problem too, albeit different  
>> circumstances.
>> I am not playing HD files but regular old avi files.
>> I have compiled a 32bit mplayer from svn, on Snow Leopard, using
>> the leopard SDK included with SL.
>
> Does this happen with both -vo quartz and -vo macosx? How about
> -nosound?



-vo quartz works.
-vo macosx does not work and gives the following error:
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

-nosound -vo corevideo results in the aforementioned crash.

--Dave.