[MPlayer-users] Re: Crash extracting audio from .RM

[Brent Robertson]

 >> I'm running a recent CVS build due crashing issues with 1.0pre4-3.2.2
 >> (Thanks Roberto Togni for helping me out).  Unfortunately it is still
 >> crashes on some RM files (which play fine in RealPlayer).
 >>
 >> Here's my command line:
 >>
 >> [localhost %] mplayer -af resample=16000:0:2 -srate 16000 /home/
 >> download/archive/1088121429bill.rm -ao pcm -waveheader -vo null -vc
 >> dummy -aofile outfile.wav
 >>
 >> And here's what I get:
 >> MPlayer dev-CVS-040516-21:00-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
[...]
 >> Playing 1088121429bill.rm.
[...]
 >> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: read_subtitles_file
 >>
 >>
 >> The details from GDB:
 >> (gdb) bt
 >> #0  0x42074245 in _int_malloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
 >> #1  0x4207335b in malloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
 >> #2  0x08092946 in sub_filenames (path=0x857f248 "/root/.mplayer/
 >> sub/",
 >>     fname=0x856f9b0 "/home/download/archive/1088121429bill.rm")
 >>     at subreader.c:1814
 > Strange...
 >> #3  0x08080176 in main (argc=16, argv=0xbfffe344) at mplayer.c:1640
 >
 > Does it also happens when you play the file normally (mplayer 
filename) ?

I have played the file fine using RealPlayer, but I'm using mplayer for 
audio extraction purposes only on a remote Linux machine -- so I can't 
really play it anyway.

 > Looks like mplayer is trying to load some subtitle file.

Indeed -- is there something in the .rm file giving this directive?

 > Do you have any other files with a name similar to the one you're
 > playing?

Yes -- 1088121429bill.txt, 1088121429bill.inf, and 1088121429bill.offset

 > Can you try to rename the file or move it somewhere else?

I renamed this to xx.rm and ran it in a temp directory with nothing 
else there -- same results.   Do you want to have a look at the .rm 
file?

It seems something is strange with ones encoded like this because we 
have extracted other .rm files without any issues.