[MPlayer-users] Annoying new message from CVS mplayer
Sascha Sommer
saschasommer at freenet.de
Mon Jun 30 14:52:51 CEST 2003
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Earlier this morning, I noticed for the first time a message in mplayer
> output which hadn't been there before; it appears to occur numerous
> times (dozens/hundreds) over the course of playing any video in which it
> occurs at all.
>
> L3: BigValues too large, doesn't make sense 416 384
>
> The numbers given are the most common, but do vary.
>
> I've tried a few different files, and have received this message only in
> comparatively high-quality AVIs; it does not appear to occur in .mpg
> files or low-quality AVIs, and I have yet to try any others.
>
> I've tracked this down to mp3lib/layer3.c, where the message is printed
> in two different locations, both delimited by #ifdef L3_DEBUG #endif.
> Commenting out both of those blocks removes the message, without
> breaking the compile or appearing to affect functionality.
>
> Near the beginning of the file, there are these three lines:
>
> #if 0
> #define L3_DEBUG 1
> #endif
>
> Commenting out this block breaks the compile.
>
> I have been assured that, as seems intuitive, #if 0 will always be
> false; however, this does not seem consistent with this case, as if it
> were false then removing the block by commenting it out should not
> change anything.
>
The same message appears again a few lines later. The #ifdefs were
commented out there. I reenabled them now.
Sascha
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