[MPlayer-users] system freeze

[Florian Schneider]

Hi!

I need help in finding a solution to avoid system freezes while
playing movies with mplayer.
The freeze is reproduceable, but though it doesn't occur with any
video, I can't figure out the problem.

It is always the same: I start playing the file an after two or three
seconds, the whole system freezes. No network connection, no sysrq
keys.

Usually I run mplayer using -vo xv and -ao oss, but the freeze does
also occur using -ao null and -vo x11 or sdl.

One file is played used this videocodec:
[mpegpes] vfm:mpegpes (Mpeg PES output (.mpg or Dxr3/DVB card))
Another one is player using libavcodec's Sorenson1 feature:
[ffsvq1] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg Sorenson Video v1)

So why am I sending this to mplayer-users and not to nvidia or
xfree86?
The system crashes only using mplayer. I can play the files without
problems using KDE's xine-based noatun.

I watched the logfiles in /var/log/syslog but could not find anything
helpful I could post here, so I give you the information as requested
in DOCS/bugreports.html

- Debian unstable
- Linux 2.4.20
- 1102984 2003-01-21 23:15 /lib/libc-2.3.1.so
   563068 2002-02-04 22:30 /lib/libc.so.5.4.46
-XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-5 20030122074040)
- gcc version 3.2.2 20030131 (Debian prerelease)
- GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.16 20021126 Debian GNU/Linux
- GNU assembler 2.13.90.0.16 20021126 Debian GNU/Linux
- fullscreen or not doesn't matter. the problem occurs in both modes
- gui seems not to matter. the problem occurs in both modes
- Intel Pentium 3 with 500Mhz
- Nvidia Geforce2 MX with Nvidia binary driver version 1.0.4191
- SBLive! with up-to-date driver from oss.creative.com

MPlayer itself is today's CVS checkout, compiled with "--enable-gui
--language=de --with-reallibdir=/usr/lib/win32".

Do you need a copy of one of the files for testing? I don't have access
to a public ftp or something, but problably I could find one if it's
needed.

I hope I didn't forget any important information in this mail...

regards,
   Florian

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