MPlayer crashs on start up (0.6.1.4106)

pihug12 · Post by **pihug12** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:00 am

Hello !

MPlayer crashs on start up (MediaCoder 0.6.1.4106)

MediaCoder is fine after...

pihug12

HappyViewer · Post by **HappyViewer** » Thu May 01, 2008 7:02 pm

Have the same but, but DrWatson is likely to report this mishap to M$.

The prgram itself (MediaCoder) keeps on functioning, assume it's MPlayer causing the problem. The fault comes up as soon as you click on the AVI file to retrieve the it's data.

When I start MPlayer (MPUI.exe) itself from the MediaCoder directory as a stand-alone (without starting Mediacoder) it starts, but as soon as I ask it to play an AVI, it crashes. (It accepts the file)
Possible error in the installation package. (Running on XP machine).
Un and re-installed three times and went back to a previous version (4045)

pihug12 · Post by **pihug12** » Sun May 04, 2008 10:59 pm

EDIT : MediaCoder is not fine after.
MEncoder crashes when I start a transcoding.

Switch back to 0.6.1.4045.

pihug12

Post by **stanley** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:56 pm

I think replacing mplayer and mencoder with older version may also fix your problem.

tubes&transistors · Post by **tubes&transistors** » Wed May 07, 2008 10:24 pm

I was also having problems with version 0.6.1.4106 (extracted zip archive).
Sometimes the program would crash on startup stating Mplayer was having problems. Other times, Mencoder would cause a crash when I was trying to convert a file.

I then downloaded the last stable version, MediaCoder 0.6.1.4045. extracted the archive, and copied Mencoder and Mplayer to the codecs subdirectory as Stanley suggested. The program hasn't crashed since.

Thanks for the suggestion. Are you going to replace Mencoder and Mplayer in the next build?

Does it make a difference if I use the installer version rather than extracting a zip archive? Does the installer check the system first for an optimized install?

Post by **stanley** » Thu May 08, 2008 2:54 pm

MPlayer and MEncoder seem buggy in this release. I am reverting to older revisions to look for a more stable one.

bora · Post by **bora** » Thu May 15, 2008 4:27 am

The same happening here.

FYI, this is Mplayer's output:

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing C:\*****.mpeg.
MPEG-ES file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 512x512 (aspect

30.000 fps 4608.0 kbps (576.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 512 x 512 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed

Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family