[MPlayer-users] All XVID encoded videos with size 624x352 cause mplayer to segfault (current and previous svn snapshots)

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Mike Gorchak <mike.gorchak.qnx <at> gmail.com> writes:

> There two different issues combined into the one. 
> 1) SSE2 optimized functions require special buffer 
> layout (height/width/stride aligns), but these 
> restrictions were not checked before calling such 
> functions.

Is MPlayer code really calling SSE2 functions?

Or in other words: Is this really a problem 
reproducible with MPlayer but not FFmpeg?

> 2) Buffer allocation algorithm has some issues, 
> because it allocates 8 bytes aligned buffers, while 
> all functions expect 16 bytes aligned buffers.

There are functions that require no alignment at all 
(and functions that require alignment higher than 
16 bytes).

Carl Eugen