Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 02/08/2012 03:04:50 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> > > On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I need some advice.
> > > >
> > > > Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer /
> > > smplayer
> > > > and I don't know why.
> > > >
> > > > First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio
> > > >
> > > > Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati-
> > > > drivers-12.1-r1 with gentoo-sources-3.2.x)
> > > >
> > > > Third, smplayer does show the video (without a segment fault)
> but
> > > > doesn't play audio.
> > > >
> > > > How can I isolate the problem?
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks for a hint,
> > > > Helmut.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws.
> Paste
> > > it
> > >
> > > here.
> >
> > Unfortunately, that's impossible.
> >
> > mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg
> and
> > forces me to reboot the machine.
> >
> > Xorg.0.log.old shows
> >
> >
> > Backtrace:
> > [  1669.886] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x564f86]
> > [  1669.886] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x168bc9) [0x568bc9]
> > [  1669.886] 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fa7aa5f4000+0x10ff0)
> > [0x7fa7aa604ff0]
> > [  1669.887] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> > (xs111LookupPrivate+0x22) [0x7fa7a778c372]
> > [  1669.887] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> > (xclLookupPrivate+0xd) [0x7fa7a7167cdd]
> > [  1669.887] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so (X740XvPutImage
> > +0x12e) [0x7fa7a441f81e]
> > [  1669.887] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x8a84e) [0x48a84e]
> > [  1669.888] 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
> > (0x7fa7a83f8000+0xf53e) [0x7fa7a840753e]
> > [  1669.888] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x36979) [0x436979]
> > [  1669.888] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2613a) [0x42613a]
> > [  1669.888] 10: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed)
> > [0x7fa7a952b3cd]
> > [  1669.888] 11: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2645d) [0x42645d]
> > [  1669.888] Segmentation fault at address 0x20
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Helmut.
> >
> Did you read this and follow the advice to work around Xv as
> mentioned
> in the elog?
>
> This release of ati-drivers has a crashing bug when using Xv video.
> To avoid this problem, configure your video playback software for
> OpenGL output. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391193
>

Many thanks, the workaround mentioned in this link fixes the segment 
fault.
Still, audio doesn't work, yet.

Helmut.