[MPlayer-users] Failure after ubuntu update

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 02:05:45PM +0200, Oliver Seitz wrote:
> $ mplayer -v -playlist
> http://wstreaming.zdf.de/zdf/veryhigh/120420_fr_lot.asx

Plays just fine here.

> Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs

You should not have binary codecs installed unless you really need them.

> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec

A gdb backtrace and/or valgrind log would help, but the binary codecs
tend to work not all that reliable.