[MPlayer-users] mplayer crash with 0.90pre8 (update: also with pre9)

[Michal Seliga]

I forgot to add... sorry

'assertion failed' is now in ratecontrol.c on line 635
I used gcc-3.2 on Duron700 with Mandrake 9.0

> Message: 2
> From: "Michal Seliga" <michal.seliga at visicom.sk>
> To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:34:00 +0100
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer crash with 0.90pre8 (update: also with pre9)
> Reply-To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> 
> > Message: 1
> > From: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> > To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> > Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer crash with 0.90pre8
> > Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:33:34 +0100
> > Reply-To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Tuesday 29 October 2002 11:51, Germán Gabriel Estévez wrote:
> > >   Mplayer crash encoding DVD to avi with libavcodec with resolutions of
> > > 512x288 y 576x352, the aspect ratio of the movie is 1.78. The crash happen
> > > randomly, 5  %, 75 %, not at a given fixed time. The error after the
> > > crashing is:
> > >
> > > mencoder: ratecontrol.c:551: ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `q>0.0'
> > > failed.
> > pre8 is too old, try CVS
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Michael
> 
> The same thing happens if you use mplayer 0.90pre9 and switch 'old rate control'
> and you have bad luck with input video and number of selected b frames
> 
> (for example try to encode file 
> 'ftp://ftp.no.scene.org/scene.org/parties/2002/trsac02/anim/fscked_up_by_jakob_of_schizo.mpg'
>  with number of b frames 1)
> 
> if you use mplayer 0.90pre9 default rate control it will not crash, but instead it will make very low
> bitrate video (thing I wrote about few days ago)
> 
> (for example this file from scene.org...
>  when I encode it with 0 b-frames and bitrate 16000 result has bitrate more then 3000
>  when I encode it with 1 b-frame and bitrate 16000 result has bitrate less then 400
> 
>   you may imagine how it looks....
> 
> )