Bug#958865: mplayer: theora playback broken: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.
> On 26 Apr 2020, at 08:03, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> Quoting Stuart Longland (2020-04-26 03:36:14)
>> I struck this issue trying to play a Ogg/Theora video originally on
>> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and later reproduced the exact same conditions on
>> Debian 10.
>
>> mplayer: libmpcodecs/vf.c:287: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.
>
>> `test.ogv` can be downloaded from
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/1857407/+attachment/5314961/+files/test.ogv
>
> MPlayer is no longer developed and largely replaced by mpv.
It's fair enough to point people to alternatives,
but I don't think it's ok or fair to blame upstream
for issues that have been long fixed (this one in
April last year).
r38362 specifically.
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