[MPlayer-users] Cannot play mkv file, error "MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode video"

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Hello,

I'm having problem with mplay to replay one mkv file. The error I got
is "MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode video". I've
tried windows xp, server 2008, also with the latest build of mplayer,
all end up with the same error. I tried some other player, apparently
the mkv file was able to be played in classic windows media player
with storm codec or k-lite codec installed. so I'm guess it's not a
corrupted file.

Further more, I extracted the video stream from the mkv file using
mkvtoolnix, save it as an rm file. Mplayer is able to play the rm file
without error. That led me to think there might be some problem in
mplayer that failed to parse the video stream from the mkv file
correctly.

I did try couple other mkv files, and mplayer can handle all of them
without problem. One difference I noticed is that, other mkv files
were build using mkvmerge v.2.2, while the one having problem is built
with mkvmerge v.2.9. Then I downloaded mkvmerge v2.2, and created a
new mkv file using the rm file that I extracted from the problemetic
mkv. Again, mplayer can't play the new file, the error is same.

With all these efforts and google around for days, I ran out of
options and would like to hear your opinion. You can find the mkv and
rm file in following link:
http://okeoke.net/downloads/beta/mkv.zip
http://okeoke.net/downloads/beta/rm.zip

Many Thanks!

Dan

Following is the mplayer output, the mkv info of the file can be found
at the end of this email.
====================================================
c:\mplayer>mplayer -vo direct3d   d:\temp\by2.mkv

MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r28311-4.2.5 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q9550  @ 2.83GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Step
ping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing d:\temp\by2.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_REAL/RV40), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AAC), -aid 0, -alang und
[mkv] Track ID 3: audio (A_AAC), -aid 1, -alang und
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [RV40]  720x480  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.dll.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv4.so.6.0.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Selected video codec: [rv40win] vfm: realvid (Win32 RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode 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.
===========================================================

mkv file info retrieved by mkvtoolnix
========================================================
D:\downloads\mkvtoolnix-unicode-3.4.0\mkvtoolnix>mkvinfo.exe d:\temp\by2.mkv
+ EBML head
|+ Doc type: matroska
|+ Doc type version: 2
|+ Doc type read version: 2
+ Segment, size 30708264
|+ Seek head (subentries will be skipped)
|+ EbmlVoid (size: 4027)
|+ Segment information
| + Timecode scale: 1000000
| + Muxing application: libebml v0.7.9 + libmatroska v0.8.1
| + Writing application: mkvmerge v2.9.9 ('Tutu') built on Nov 25 2009 21:13:32
| + Duration: 212.736s (00:03:32.736)
| + Date: Mon May 10 13:59:03 2010 UTC
| + Segment UID: 0x8d 0xc4 0x9d 0x44 0x88 0xcf 0xeb 0xce 0x98 0xf9 0x36 0x62 0xb
8 0xa4 0x39 0xff
|+ Segment tracks
| + A track
|  + Track number: 1
|  + Track UID: 41
|  + Track type: video
|  + Enabled: 1
|  + Default flag: 0
|  + Forced flag: 0
|  + Lacing flag: 0
|  + MinCache: 1
|  + Timecode scale: 1
|  + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
|  + Codec ID: V_REAL/RV40
|  + Codec decode all: 1
|  + CodecPrivate, length 50
|  + Language: eng
|  + Video track
|   + Pixel width: 720
|   + Pixel height: 480
|   + Interlaced: 0
|   + Display width: 720
|   + Display height: 480
| + A track
|  + Track number: 2
|  + Track UID: 3955892409
|  + Track type: audio
|  + Enabled: 1
|  + Default flag: 1
|  + Forced flag: 0
|  + Lacing flag: 1
|  + MinCache: 0
|  + Timecode scale: 1
|  + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
|  + Codec ID: A_AAC
|  + Codec decode all: 1
|  + CodecPrivate, length 2
|  + Default duration: 21.333ms (46.875 fps for a video track)
|  + Language: und
|  + Audio track
|   + Sampling frequency: 48000
|   + Channels: 2
| + A track
|  + Track number: 3
|  + Track UID: 1186322321
|  + Track type: audio
|  + Enabled: 1
|  + Default flag: 0
|  + Forced flag: 0
|  + Lacing flag: 1
|  + MinCache: 0
|  + Timecode scale: 1
|  + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
|  + Codec ID: A_AAC
|  + Codec decode all: 1
|  + CodecPrivate, length 2
|  + Default duration: 21.333ms (46.875 fps for a video track)
|  + Language: und
|  + Audio track
|   + Sampling frequency: 48000
|   + Channels: 2
|+ EbmlVoid (size: 1024)
|+ Cluster