Hello,
since a few days, mplayer crashes occasionally. The problem seems to be
in libass, probably caused by a libfreetype update (Debian switched from
2.4.4-2 to 2.4.6-1 four days ago, which might coindice with when the
crashes started).
The attached a.ass (just rename a random video file to a.avi) plays with
"mplayer a.avi", but fails with "mplayer -ass a.avi". A (very) short
look at the backtrace (unfortunately Debian has no -dbg package for
freetype, so no detailed info from that) led me to make the change in
workaround.diff (basically just disabling the line it crashed in), and
with that change, it doesn't crash anymore.
Best regards,
Christian Ohm
