Re: MPlayer 1.0-pre3

[<nrm1@chocolate.muphin.net>]

Hello,

       If you don't have artsd support built into mplayer then artsd will
not give control of your sound over to mplayer, thats why you need to shut
it down.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pieter-Paul Spiertz" <pspiertz@sci.kun.nl>
To: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:33 AM
Subject: MPlayer 1.0-pre3


> Hi,
>
> Just to let you know: on 9 december, MPlayer 1.0-pre3 was released and
> rereleased (the first version didn't even compile on any big-endian
> architecture.)
>
> It looks like the colour problems of the previous version have been
> fixed (mlib is mentioned in the long changelog), but stability is
> terrible compared to -pre2. Arguably, only fixing the compilation
> problems is not all :)
>
> It repeatedly crashes:
>
> stn@cruithne:~$ /usr/src/MPlayer-1.0pre3/mplayer -ao null
./returnoftheking_nl480_dl.mov
>  ...
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 10 in module: decode_video
> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>
> stn@cruithne:~$ /usr/src/MPlayer-1.0pre3/mplayer -ao null
rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/tv/tros/2vandaag/bb.tyler.rm
>  ...
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 10 in module: open_stream
> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>
> I hope there'll be another rerelease for Sparc. :)
>
>
> As a sidenote, when KDE's sound daemon artsd is active, mplayer says:
>
> stn@cruithne:~$ /usr/src/MPlayer-1.0pre3/mplayer ./Royksopp\ -\ Remind\
Me\ \(DK\ Yankz\).avi
>   ...
> audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> ao_nas: init(): Can't open nas audio server -> nosound
> SDL: Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format Signed 16-bit
(Big-Endian)
> Killed
>
> It is killed because my kernel (Debian's 2.4.21) oopses:
>
> Dec 11 13:24:41 cruithne kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference
> Dec 11 13:24:41 cruithne kernel: tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context =
000000000000072a
> Dec 11 13:24:41 cruithne kernel: tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd =
fffff80014a84000
> Dec 11 13:24:41 cruithne kernel:               \|/ ____ \|/
> Dec 11 13:24:41 cruithne kernel:               "@'/ .. \`@"
> Dec 11 13:24:41 cruithne kernel:               /_| \__/ |_\
> Dec 11 13:24:41 cruithne kernel:                  \__U_/
> Dec 11 13:24:41 cruithne kernel: mplayer(5701): Oops
>
> Is this normal? The audio/cs4231 modules are loaded.
>
> (No such problem when I kill artsd beforehand; the Royksopp divx plays
> fine then, a bit slow but with the correct colours! :))
>
>
> Regards,
> Pieter-Paul
>
>
>
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