On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:50:18PM +0000, Mark Blain wrote: > I tested successfully on a 32-bit Windows box with the manual-install > Lagarith 32-bit DLL in my mplayer codecs folder. My own failure was on a slackware box with a similar manual placement of the dll. > Please post the messages you receive when trying to play the file. The error message that precipitates the MPlayer crash is: +--------- Opening video decoder: [vfw] Win32/VfW video codecs ======= Win32 (VFW) VIDEO Codec init ======= Loading codec DLL: 'lagarith.dll' Called unk_EncodePointer +------- But the full error message is printed below, I have not made a gdb backtrace yet as until I heard of your success I assumed that lagarith playback might not be possible :). +------- andrew at skamandros~/samples$ mplayer -v lagarith.avi MPlayer SVN-r29766-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel max cpuid level: 10 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 2) extended cpuid-level: 8 extended cache-info: 134242368 Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes Testing OS support for SSE... yes. Tests of OS support for SSE passed. CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNowExt: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 SSSE3: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 SSSE3 CMOV get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/andrew/.mplayer/codecs.conf' Reading /home/andrew/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/andrew/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Using built-in default codecs.conf. Configuration: --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/man --confdir=/etc/mplayer --codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs CommandLine: '-v' 'lagarith.avi' init_freetype Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay get_path('fonts') -> '/home/andrew/.mplayer/fonts' Using nanosleep() timing get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/andrew/.mplayer/input.conf' Can't open input config file /home/andrew/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config get_path('lagarith.avi.conf') -> '/home/andrew/.mplayer/lagarith.avi.conf' Playing lagarith.avi. get_path('sub/') -> '/home/andrew/.mplayer/sub/' [file] File size is 19086290 bytes STREAM: [file] lagarith.avi STREAM: Description: File STREAM: Author: Albeu STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi) LAVF_check: AVI format AVI file format detected. list_end=0x20204 ======= AVI Header ======= us/frame: 33366 (fps=29.971) max bytes/sec: 2087650 padding: 0 MainAVIHeader.dwFlags: (16) HAS_INDEX frames total: 274 initial: 0 streams: 1 Suggested BufferSize: 0 Size: 480 x 256 ========================== list_end=0x200F8 ==> Found video stream: 0 [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0 ====== STREAM Header ===== Type: vids FCC: lags (7367616C) Flags: 0 Priority: 0 Language: 0 InitialFrames: 0 Rate: 2997/100 = 29.970 Start: 0 Len: 274 Suggested BufferSize: 73550 Quality 10000 Sample size: 0 ========================== Found 'bih', 44 bytes of 40 ======= VIDEO Format ====== biSize 44 biWidth 480 biHeight 256 biPlanes 1 biBitCount 24 biCompression 1397178700='LAGS' biSizeImage 368640 Unknown extra header dump: [0] [0] [0] [0] =========================== list_end=0x20204 AVI: dmlh found (size=248) (total_frames=274) list_end=0x1232A74 Found movie at 0x2080C - 0x1232A74 Reading INDEX block, 274 chunks for 274 frames (fpos=19081852). list_end=0x1233BD2 hdr=Software size=34 Software : MEncoder Sherpya-SVN-r24762-4.2.1 AVI index offset: 0x20808 (movi=0x2080C idx0=0x4 idx1=0xF6E8) Auto-selected AVI video ID = 0 AVI: Searching for audio stream (id:-1) AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound. AVI video size=18946387 (274) audio size=0 (0) VIDEO: [LAGS] 480x256 24bpp 29.970 fps 16578.8 kbps (2023.8 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x5347414C size:480x256 fps:29.970 ftime:=0.0334 Clip info: Software: MEncoder Sherpya-SVN-r24762-4.2.1 get_path('sub/') -> '/home/andrew/.mplayer/sub/' X11 opening display: :0.0 vo: X11 color mask: FFFFFF (R:FF0000 G:FF00 B:FF) vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display) [x11] Detected wm supports layers. [x11] Using workaround for Metacity bugs. [x11] Detected wm supports NetWM. [x11] Detected wm supports ABOVE state. [x11] Detected wm supports BELOW state. [x11] Detected wm supports FULLSCREEN state. [x11] Current fstype setting honours FULLSCREEN ABOVE BELOW X atoms [VO_XV] Using Xv Adapter #0 (Intel(R) Textured Video) [xv common] Drawing no colorkey. [xv common] Maximum source image dimensions: 2048x2048 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [vfw] Win32/VfW video codecs ======= Win32 (VFW) VIDEO Codec init ======= Loading codec DLL: 'lagarith.dll' Called unk_EncodePointer MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash. - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen. It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug. +--------------- I am happy to make a gdb backtrace if this would provide any clues... Andrew -- Do you think that's air you're breathing?