Bug#616541: mplayer crashes - SIGILL - with any file

[Reinhard Tartler]

severity 616541 normal
merge 616541 410962
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On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 19:24:49 (CET), Gunther Furtado wrote:

> Em 05.Mar.2011 (sábado), Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> disse:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:31:16 (CET), Gunther Furtado wrote:
>> 
>> > Since the latest update mplayer cannot play any file I could get my
>> > hands on. When I downgraded mplayer all files played nicely. I've
>> > run gdb and the output is below.
>> 
>> What was the version number that worked for you? And did you also
>> upgrade the libavcodec52?
>
> I am not really sure about the highest version number that worked for
> me (I guess the last one that was on testing before 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1-1)
>
> I've reinstalled the squeeze version 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1 and it
> works just fine.

well, that's the version from stable. Not exactly what I would want to
use on a post-squeeze system.


>> What processor do you have? Does it support altivec? Is this actually
>> a duplicate report of #410962
>
>
> gunther at azul:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> processor	: 0
> cpu		: 740/750
> temperature 	: 47-49 C (uncalibrated)
> clock		: 333.333330MHz
> revision	: 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
> bogomips	: 33.32
> timebase	: 16664200
> platform	: PowerMac
> model		: iMac,1
> machine		: iMac,1
> motherboard	: iMac MacRISC Power Macintosh
> detected as	: 79 (Unknown Paddington-based)
> pmac flags	: 00000000
> L2 cache	: 512K unified
> pmac-generation	: NewWorld
> Memory		: 384 MB
>
> ---
>
> no, it does not support altivec.

Thanks for confirming my suspicion.

> ---
>
> I *guess* this is not a duplicate of #410926 where mplayer complained
> about a different subject:
>
> "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: init_video_codec"

No, the cause is the same. The debian mplayer binary has altivec
instructions compiled in, and therefore, won't work on any powerpc
system without altivec. At all!

In order to not loose this report, I'm marking it as duplicate. Thanks
for reporting anyway!

> This is my the output of _mplayer -v /tmp/teste.mpg_ and in my case it
> doesn't get to the part where mplayer tries to open codecs. (I can
> listen to audio tracks in all files via the -novideo option)
>
>  
> mplayer: Symbol `ff_codec_wav_tags' has different size in shared
> object, consider re-linking
> mplayer: Symbol `ff_codec_bmp_tags' has different size in shared
> object, consider re-linking

This is expected when using mplayer rc3 with FFmpeg 0.6.

Cheers!

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