[MPlayer-users] Assertion failed / double free

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 03:54:31PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 01:28:50PM +0200, Giorgio Vazzana wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > could someone please give a look at this? Thanks.
> 
> It is hard to say something for certain without a gdb backtrace
> or better a valgrind log of a MPlayer binary with debug info,
> But it looks a lot like a bug in ALSA libraries.
> 
> > alsa-init: using ALSA 1.0.22
> 
> That is from 2009-12-16, i.e. over 4 years old, so bugs in
> it are somewhat likely.

One thing: as a workaround, avoiding dmix might avoid many issues.
I.e. use something like
-ao alsa:device=hw:0.0