[K12OSN] Discussion on sound (not meant as a rant)

[David Hopkins]

Well,  I have now recompiled mplayer with only esd sound support.  If
launched from the command line, it works (mplayer some_file).  But, launched
using gmplayer, it no longer hangs on launch. Instead, it hangs/crashes when
you try to start the video.  Very irritating since gmplayer is just a link
to mplayer.  So, why does mplayer crash with the gui?  Any ideas?  I can
start trying to use various options to turn-off things like sse, mmx, etc
but before doing so, is there any good reason mplayer would play with
mplayer file, and not when selecting the file from the gui?  This is a major
issue for the school admin.  The teachers are not going to be happy being
asked to launch from a command line.

Or, how do I associate .mov and .asf files with mplayer so that
double-clicking them launches them with mplayer?

On 1/26/07, David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, my continuing saga with sound and mplayer.
>
> I installed via freshrpms a version of mplayer, but it did not have the
> codecs required, so I then downloaded the src code from mplayerhq.  I also
> downloaded the skins, codecs, and then installed all of the missing
> development libraries that showed up when running the configure script.
> This allowed me to finally run make and make install to get mplayer mostly
> working.  I can playback either windows media or quicktime movies that I
> download from United Streaming from the command line , but, I can't launch
> the gui interface, even though I included the  option to compile it.  I have
> tried to troubleshoot using
> http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html
>
> The error message is below:
>
> Has someone that has manually compiled seen this issue?  Also, how do I
> add mplayer to the menu system (we are using gnome)?  The menu entry is
> removed when I uninstall the version that I installed via yum.  If no one
> has seen this, then I will follow the suggestions below and generate the
> debug info.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dave Hopkins
>
>
> [root at ncslts3 skins]# gmplayer
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>
>
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: unknown
> - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
>   Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
>   disassembly. Details in
> DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>   It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
>   gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
>   DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't
> and
>   won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible
> bug.
> *** glibc detected *** gmplayer: double free or corruption (fasttop):
> 0x09a10b70 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6[0x9f1a68]
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x78)[0x9f4f6f]
> gmplayer(free_font_desc+0x20)[0x80bac81]
> gmplayer(free_font_desc+0x2f)[0x80bac90]
> =
>
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