[MPlayer-users] Mplayer crashes when trying to play mp4 and mencoder produces garbage output when trying to transcode it

[Josh]

On 12/11/2013 15:24, Jonathan Busby wrote:
> Yep. I can confirm that that latest Windows x64 build of Mplayer works
> flawlessly on the source .mp4 :
>
> "
> MPlayer Redxii-SVN-r36541-4.6.3 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
> Compiled against FFmpeg version N-58950-g8e5a298
> Build date: Tue Dec 10 02:19:03 EST 2013
> "
>
> Thanks to all who helped!
>
> Jonathan
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I think I will start providing debug builds from now on so that anyone 
can debug the same exact build and maybe some instructions for Dr Memory 
or GDB to provide useful output.

FreeType2 2.5.1 was the culprit and is resolved in FT2 2.5.2.