Bug#507212: mplayer issues spurious messages

[Reinhard Tartler]

tags 507212 upstream
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David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> writes:

> This bug is also in mplayer version 1.0~rc2+svn20090303-2, and has been
> in every version since I submitted this bug (mid 2008), whether or not a
> specific subversion has been in unstable or not, the bug has existed
> since mid 2008 as evidenced by the package name in my original
> submission.
>
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:25 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> severity 507212 wishlist
>> stop
>> 
>> David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> writes:
>> 
>> > Package: mplayer
>> > Version: 1:1.0rc2svn20080706-0.1
>> 
>> this version has never been in unstable. Please consider filing such
>> bugs at the actual package maintainer or even better straight to
>> upstream.
>> 
>> > Ive noticed lately, files that previously played fine under mplayer and
>> > now generating a huge amount of debug messages about vfw-avi frames.
>> > The actual message is:
>> >
>> > [mpeg4 @0xa389c0]Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames
>> > detected
>> 
>> Does this message go away when you use the switch -quiet?

hm, clearly an upstream issue then.

Can you perhaps try to compile mplayer from source and then bisect to
find the change that is causing that? This is necessary to file a bug in
the upstream bugzilla. [1]

[1] http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4