[MPlayer-users] how to get vp6 codec to work?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:47:20PM +0200, Maik Meier wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> I have a problem with watching an internet stream which uses vp6 codec. 
> If I start mplayer with this stream(mplayer 
> http://91.121.4.152:8000/;stream.nsv), it automatically selects ffvp6 
> (ffmpeg). And at first this seems to work, but only for a while. It 
> crashes very often or is ever-changing the output resolution. mplayer says:
> 
> |
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter_video
> - 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.


Read and do as it says. -demuxer lavf -lavfdopts format=nsv probably
works better than the default.