[MPlayer-users] mplayer svn crashes with -vo null

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:34:24PM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> I built mplayer from svn: MPlayer SVN-r30385-4.3.3 and it crashes
> consistently with -vo null.  Other outputs are fine.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?
> 
> The full command is:
> 
> mplayer dvdnav://1  -dvd-device /dev/myth/dvd -ss 700 -frames 30 -vf
> cropdetect -ao null -vo null
> 
> It works fine with -vo x11 and others.

Caused by a happy reunion of bugs in MPlayer (ended up using -vf lavc,
did you never wonder why this command was so slow? It did some encoding
for you) and in FFmpeg (incorrect alignment, only relevant on SSSE3-capable
CPUs) and a 50:50 chance that worked in your disfavour.
The bugs are squashed, if you want to be extra sure use an older CPU and
get some better luck :-P