On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:34:24PM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: > I built mplayer from svn: MPlayer SVN-r30385-4.3.3 and it crashes > consistently with -vo null. Other outputs are fine. > > Is anyone else seeing this? > > The full command is: > > mplayer dvdnav://1 -dvd-device /dev/myth/dvd -ss 700 -frames 30 -vf > cropdetect -ao null -vo null > > It works fine with -vo x11 and others. There's a good reason you should always include the full mplayer output. It will say something like VO: [null] 352x288 => 352x288 Mpeg PES which obviously shows something is very wrong. In addition it will only crash with cropdetect.