Bug#958865: mplayer: theora playback broken: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.
Quoting Reimar Döffinger (2023-02-05 12:05:07)
>
> > On 26 Apr 2020, at 08:03, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
> > 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.
Is your complaint that in 2020 I failed to predict that upstream would
issue a bugfix 2 years later?!?
- Jonas
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