On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:44:18PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:16:48PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > > > but here comes the weirdest part! > > I was happy to have found this video ; so I moved it to another > > directory ; then somehow I thought of trying it again ... and it works! > > then I moved that video to the old dir, and it crashes! > > so , it is directory dependant! :-) > > Are there any weird characters in the name of the directory?
no it was actually /d/hp/crash.avi > > then I moved away the directory ~/.mplayer ; now gmplayer does not crash > > Hmm, maybe there was some garbage or incompatible settings from older > versions in that configuration file.. today I got a similar crash when listening to a rtsp stream: I paused it, and when I unpaused, it crashed. This is a nasty bug! the only constant is that it happens with the gui, and never with mplayer plain. There must be some bug in the gui code that corrupts the memory, and disrupts the xlib interaction. Unfortunately when the bug kicks in , it is too late to understand whats gone awry. a. -- Andrea Mennucc "The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me what I can't do, and the GPL sounds like it was written by a human being who wants me to know what I can do." Anonymous, http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/420 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]