[MPlayer-dev-eng] gcc 2.95 compiler bug

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 05:49:04PM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:10:58 +0100
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > Looks like our beloved icon of free software compiler technology is
> > getting blemishes ;-)
> 
> "getting"???  I'd say it's had them for quite some time.
> 
> 
> > Movie-Aspect is nan:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> > VO Config (176x144->176x-2147483648,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659)
> > VO: invalid dimensions!
> > FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
> 
> Ah, I remeber this one...  I reported it happening with mkv files.  See
> here:  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/20916
> 
> You can get it to work just by adding  "-aspect" to your command-line.
> 
> Next, you'll notice that the audio is corrupted, and see "nan" in the
> audio status line :-)  Or maybe not...

again, it's not a compiler bug....or rather, a compiler bug in gcc3 is
masking the error. :) mplayer is using uninitialized data.

rich