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

[Josh]

On 12/16/2013 03:03, Josh wrote:
> 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.
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My newer builds now have accompanying debug (level 3) builds. They are 
the in 'debug' subfolder of each release on SourceForge for 
mplayerwin.sf.net. The  builds are made using MinGW and GCC so it has to 
be a debugger that understands GNU debugging symbols, GDB and Dr Memory 
should work but note Dr Memory doesn't support 64-bit executables. Any 
future crashes I hope will be super easy to debug for users and developers.