[MPlayer-users] Crash on OS X 10.3.9

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 3/1/07, Risto Suominen <risto.suominen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed MPlayer OSX PPC binary package on my iMac DV 400 MHz (G3).

Could you try to compile your own version of MPlayer? We don't support
binary packages because god knows what parameters are used to generate
the binary package? That binary maybe isn't just fit for your machine!


> First it started ok, but didn't play a URL, before I created a
> symbolic link at /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib pointing at
> /sw/lib/libncurses.5.dylib (Fink, OS X included version was 5.0.0).
>
> Then it played the video URL without video, i.e. black screen and ok
> audio. Then I decided to install the Codec package (rp9). It made no
> difference, and I decided to restart the player. Now it crashed on
> startup.
>
> I undid the changes (the link and the codecs), re-installed the
> player, even re-booted the machine, but no help. A crash report of 14
> k is generated, maybe too much to attach here? I might make it
> downloadable if there is interest...

why not? You can compress it with gzip if needed.

Guillaume