Mplayer fails to play videos

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  • Andreas Enge
  • Leo Famulari
  • swedebugia
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Andreas Enge wrote 7 years ago
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
20180717202545.GA17447@jurong
Hello,

the current mplayer package crashes for me with a message like this:
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open
- 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.

I tried it on .mp4 files and on a .mov file. Compiling it with ffmpeg-3.4
instead of ffmpeg-4 solves the problem. Now I was told that anyway I had
better switch to mpv.

So I see two possible courses of action:
- Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to keep also
this older ffmpeg package around.
- Drop mplayer, and replace it by mpv (there is a field in the package
definition to indicate this).

What do you think?

Andreas
Leo Famulari wrote 7 years ago
(name . Andreas Enge)(address . andreas@enge.fr)(address . 32191@debbugs.gnu.org)
20180717210441.GA12949@jasmine.lan
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:25:45PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
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> So I see two possible courses of action:
> - Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to keep also
> this older ffmpeg package around.

I think we will probably need to keep ffmpeg-2 and ffmpeg-3 for a while
anyways, so we might as well fix the mplayer package now.

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> - Drop mplayer, and replace it by mpv (there is a field in the package
> definition to indicate this).

Unless mplayer development continues, the package will bitrot and we
will have to replace it with mpv eventually.
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Andreas Enge wrote 7 years ago
(name . Leo Famulari)(address . leo@famulari.name)(address . 32191-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
20180717214245.GA32361@jurong
Hello Leo,

thanks for your super fast reply!

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:04:41PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
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> > So I see two possible courses of action:
> > - Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to keep also
> > this older ffmpeg package around.
> I think we will probably need to keep ffmpeg-2 and ffmpeg-3 for a while
> anyways, so we might as well fix the mplayer package now.

Okay, done in commit 21e6428dc7851bf06a68beef6e4125553aef8d88.

Andreas
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swedebugia wrote 7 years ago
E2C91219-0633-4214-AB59-A6F4700386BF@riseup.net
On July 17, 2018 10:25:45 PM GMT+02:00, Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:
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>
>
>I tried it on .mp4 files and on a .mov file. Compiling it with
>ffmpeg-3.4
>instead of ffmpeg-4 solves the problem. Now I was told that anyway I
>had
>better switch to mpv.
>
>So I see two possible courses of action:
>- Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to
>keep also
> this older ffmpeg package around.
>- Drop mplayer, and replace it by mpv (there is a field in the package
> definition to indicate this).
>
>What do you think?

I suggest we drop it. Mpv can to my knowledge do all MPlayer does anyway.

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Cheers Swedebugia
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