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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:43:07PM -0400, Dave Chand wrote:
> 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:
> >>> 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.

Make sure you used --disable-gl when compiling MPlayer, otherwise the
libGL stuff interferes with the OpenGL function from Cocoa, resulting in
crashes.