[MPlayer-users] Re: Problem playing VP6/NSV files with MPlayer 1.0pre8

[Doug Copestake]

RC <rcooley <at> spamcop.net> writes:
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:40:12 +0000 (UTC)
> Doug Copestake <doug <at> woaf.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm attempting to play a VP6 NSV stream using MPlayer 1.0pre8 Windows
> > build, however I keep receiving an error saying "MPlayer interrupted
> > by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec".
> > 
> > Playing other video formats appears to be fine, even VP3 NSV streams.
> > The problems appears to be isolated to the VP6 codec.
> 
> First make sure your vp6vfw.dll isn't corrupt for some reason...  
> vp6vfw.dll md5: 04d635a364243013898fd09484f913fb
> 
> Then it would narrow down the problem if you could try a previous
> version of MPlayer.  This sounds suspiciously like it might be related
> to the VP6/WMVA fix for FreeBSD committed shortly before 1.0pre8.
 
Thanks for your swift reply.

To be honest I'm slightly confused. I just accidently deleted all the files in
my codecs directory (i.e. C:\mplayer\codecs) and - just as a test - tried
re-running MPlayer, and the same error occurs? However there is no error saying
the codec doesn't exist anymore or anything similar? Also, the previously
working VP3 NSV stream also still works, dispite the fact the VP3 codec has also
been deleted. I've tried searching for these DLL's on my machine and no other
versions exist, I've also rebooted so I'm pretty sure it's not picking up the
DLL's from anywhere else?

Are codecs for the Windows build actually compiled into the executable? I can't
think of any other way that MPlayer would still function without the codecs in
the codec directory unless they were?

I have now downloaded and tried 1.0pre7 (the only other Windows build I could
find?) and unfortunetly the problem still occurs.