[MPlayer-users] Mplayer broken or bad DVD???

[John Tomlinson]

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:41 -0500, jmmckee wrote:
> When I attempt to play a professional DVD, I am now getting this:
> 
> a52: CRC check failed!  1.123 ct: -0.852 323/320 18%  0%  2.7% 2 0 
> a52: CRC check failed!  1.076 ct: -0.898 334/331 18%  0%  2.7% 2 0 
> a52: error at resampling
> 
> 
> Video is VERY choppy.
> 
> This is running on Ubuntu 9.04, from the repository.
> 
> Version info:
> 
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270   @ 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 28, Stepping: 2)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> 
> 
> What do I do now?
> 
> John McKee


As was pointed out to me only the other week, try and build a later
version from source. When I had problems with Ubuntu 9.10 I ended up
building a source snap shot from the mplayer web site dated 16th May
2010 and this cured the problems I was having; it was not difficult to
build.

John T.