MPlayer/VLC crash X

adlaiff6 · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: MPlayer/VLC crash X

It doesn't do it when I play music in VLC, but if I open a video in mplayer or VLC, X immediately crashes claiming that it caught "signal 11." This is the only output I get from the crash, aside from standard gibberish that is always there, plus a list of all my programs dying. I fear that a recent 'emerge -u world' may have done something nasty, but as of now, I do have the ATI binary drivers, but I have not upgraded to 7.1 (heard they don't mix). I also tried running vlc {movie} > ~/vlc.log, and upon checking it, the file was empty. Anyone know anything about this?

thewally · l33t Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 703 Location: Genova

adlaiff6 · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

Can you give me more details on how to do that? I've been running Linux for a week here.

thewally · l33t Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 703 Location: Genova

slyyls · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem after setting up my laptop with TV-out. It is a problem with xv as the post above says. It works fine when connected to a tv, but it does not work otherwise.

I have 2 xorg.conf files, one for when I want to watch TV with TV-out, the other with no TV-out (no xv problems with that xorg.conf file).

It's a pain in the ass because i constantly have to switch my xorg.conf file and reboot or restart X but it's the only thing i have found that works up to date.

Hopefully this will get fixed soon. I can't be sure but i'm fairly certain it's an ATI problem, those cards are so problematic I wished I would have bought a laptop with an NVIDEA card.

Anyways, the fix above will work, I use vo=gl2 and i works fine for me.

Sly

adlaiff6 · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:07 am Post subject:

Thanks, thewally, it worked perfectly.

adlaiff6 · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject:

Two problems still, both stemming from my inability to play .wmv files.

First, I was trying to use VLC to play them, and was still getting that error message. I tried "vlc -V gl <file>", which didn't work. I also tried vl2 and sdl, with the same result.

Then, trying to get win32codecs to work with mplayer (which apparently isn't a USE flag, what?), I installed mplayer-bin. Now mplayer and mplayer-bin both crash X again, same as before.

jure1873 · Apprentice Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 183

do you have nx? I've had that problem when I've had nx installed and only mplayer < pre7 would work

adlaiff6 · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject:

Like this?

jure1873 · Apprentice Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 183

no, it was freenx's fault.
I think mplayer has to be compiled with debug to get some more meaningful info about this signal that makes it crash.