[MPlayer-users] Mplayer OS X WMV fail to play

[The Wanderer]

Peter Kottke wrote:

> When trying to open WMVs in Mplayer I receive an error about abnormal
> playback. The log shoots out:
> "2007-07-10 22:53:05.340 MPlayer OSX[1107] *** Assertion failure in
> -[NSTextFieldCell _objectValue:forString:errorDescription:], AppKit.subproj
> /NSCell.m:1298
> 2007-07-10 22:53:05.340 MPlayer OSX[1107] Exception raised during posting of
> notification.  Ignored.  exception: Invalid parameter not satisfying:
> aString != nil
> 
> 
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: init_video_codec
> - MPlayer crashed by an 'Illegal Instruction'.
>   It usually happens when you run it on a CPU different than the one it was
>   compiled/optimized for.
>   Verify this!
> - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
>   Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
>   disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>   It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
>   gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
>   DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
> 2007-07-10 22:53:07.635 MPlayer OSX[1107] Abnormal playback error. mplayer
> returned error code: 1
> "
> This problem began when I reinstalled Mplayer last friday, before
> there were no issues.  I have tried multiple different builds of
> Mplayer for OS X and have reinstalled the Mplayer intel codecs
> multiple times.  Anyone have any ideas?

How about following the instructions in the error message above?

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