[MPlayer-users] Error message from Mplayer

[The Wanderer]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Hi, Mplayer users.
> 
> When trying to open a certain .mpg file I get the following output:
> 
> 
> $ mplayer test.mpg
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

This is too old to get support here. Even the most recent release,
1.0rc2, is not particularly supported anymore, and anything before it is
definitely not.

Also, the "-DFSG-free" on the version label indicates that this is a
packaged version made by a third party; as such, it would not be
supported here anyway, and questions about it should be directed to the
people who made the packages.

Please try with a more recent version - preferably the most recent
development version, obtained via SVN and compiled yourself - and see if
the problem still occurs.

<snip>

> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode_audio
> - 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.
> 
> 
> .  Can anyone tell what the problem could be and how to work it out?

Did you read the error messages? Particularly, did you read the last
sentence?

If the problem still happens after you update to the latest development
version, follow those directions and a fix will probably be provided.

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