[MPlayer-users] Some mpeg4/xvid videos dont work with threads=2 (or more)

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:44:23AM -0400, katiem at Safe-mail.net wrote:
> Hi, after rebuilding mplayer several times and backtracking to earlier versions of ffmpeg, the (ffmpeg) commit that causes problems playing these files is:
> 
> commit no 'c10d498bfd246a40cc7830838b74e18a79418839'
> commit title 'Add thread-safe wrapper for get_format().'
> commit date Mon, 15 Apr 2013
> 
> Rebuilding mplayer with the previous ffmpeg commit 'Fix compilation on ARM with android gcc 4.7', and the files play fine. Hope this info helps. Regards.

Thanks, and a patch is on the FFmpeg list.
However in the future please remember to provide full MPlayer output (or
at least only cut things at the end).
Because you removed the critical error message that would have made
the cause obvious without requiring bisecting:
> get_format() cannot be called after ff_thread_finish_setup()