Bug#958865: mplayer: theora playback broken: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.

2020-04-26 Thread Stuart Longland
On 26/4/20 5:22 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: > I'll have to see if mpv can pull off the same trick as mplayer. Turns out it can: stuartl@vk4msl-nb:~$ cat .screensavers/playrandom.sh #!/bin/bash if [ -n "$1" ]; then XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW=$1 fi exec /usr/bin/mpv --no-a

Bug#958865: mplayer: theora playback broken: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.

2020-04-26 Thread Stuart Longland
On 26/4/20 4:03 pm, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > MPlayer is no longer developed and largely replaced by mpv. > > I can suggest to try use mpv instead. If you dislike the minimal builtin > user interface, then try one of the frontends gnome-mpv or smplayer. > > I can play the above video just fine w

Bug#920485: Bug#958865: Acknowledgement (mplayer: theora playback broken: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.)

2020-04-25 Thread Stuart Longland
On 26/4/20 11:48 am, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. > > You can follow progress on this Bug here: 958865: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958865. So further research, it appears these are duplicate issues. 958865 can be

Bug#958865: mplayer: theora playback broken: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.

2020-04-25 Thread Stuart Longland
Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.3.0-8+b4 Severity: important Hi, I struck this issue trying to play a Ogg/Theora video originally on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and later reproduced the exact same conditions on Debian 10. Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/1857407 What