[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer as a Client for VideoLAN server

[Ross Finlayson]

>I have gotten a little further - It looks like I need to tell Videolan to 
>send with
>rtp protocol rather udp - and then mplayer gets a little futher - I see a 
>video
>window come up with some corrupted video then mplayer crashes....

What's probably happening here is that packets are getting lost (probably 
because you're trying to stream over a LAN that's not sufficiently 
high-bandwidth).  Unfortunately MPlayer's MPEG decoder library is not very 
robust; it can crash if it encounters missing data in the middle of a MPEG 
stream.

If you save the incoming stream to a file (using "-dumpvideo"), you'll 
probably find that MPlayer will crash - in the same way - if you later try 
to play that file.  (The good news, though, is that will give you a 
repeatable way to produce the crash - which should help people debug the 
problem.)

         Ross.