Mplayer crashed when played short movie with sound

[beetlegreen@…]

I have a new Compaq tc4200 Centrino Mobile laptop computer running Window XP
Tablet PC Edition version 5.1 Service Pack 2. I installed "MPlayer-1.0rc1-
gui" today with "Blue" or "Phony" skins. When I played a short movie 1.4 MB
with very little sound, it worked fine. When I played another short movie
1.2MB with sound,I got Mplayer GUI for Windows Errors -> First "Mplayer
interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec"; second "-MPlayer
crashed by Bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug
and make 'gdb' backtrace and disassembly. Details in
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash."; then "-MPlayer crashed.
This shouldn't happen. It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_in your
drivers _or_in your gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please
read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instruction there. We can't
and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible
bug." When I clicked "OK", the MPlayer disappeared on my screen. I can play
both movies on VLC media player no problem. Please help.

[reimar]

Follow the steps in ​http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html ,
or as a absolute minimum give us an URL where to download the problematic file
or upload it to ​ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming .

[beetlegreen@…]

I downloaded the files from
​http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html Mplayer 1.0rc1 Windows GUI
using HTTP US "MPlayer-1.0rc1-gui.zip"; and Blue version 1.6 "Blue-
1.6.tar.tar" and Phony version 1.1 "phony-1.1.tar.tar" from www. Thank you.

[reimar]

The problematic _video_ file, not the MPlayer files...

[beetlegreen@…]

I tried a few more viedo files that work at both VLC Media player and Microsoft
media player, they just didn't work on MPlayer. Unfortunately, they are too
big to attach as attachments.

[reimar]

That's why I asked to upload them to
​ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming, there is enough room there. Also
the video you mentioned in the original report is only 1.2 MB large, which I
think is not too large to attach here.

[beetlegreen@…]

I just ftped 2 movies to the ​ftp://upload.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming.
staff_meeting_training.wmv works at MPlayer, but NewCarForWoman.wmv didn't.
Both movies work at VLC Player and Microsoft Media Player. Thank you.

[reimar]

Hm. Weird. I can not reproduce the problem, neither on Linux nor W2k3 server.

[beetlegreen@…]

Do you mean both movies work ok in your system? Should I re-download and re-
setup the MPlayer?

[reimar]

Yes, both movies play for me, and no, I don't really think that re-downloading
MPlayer will help. I currently have no idea what the problem could be. Might
try to change some setting though, esp. the video and audio output methods.
That's the best I can suggest right now.

[beetlegreen@…]

I re-downloaded the "MPlayer-1.0rc1-gui.zip" and "Blue-1.6.tar.tar" in my
laptop. It is a Sony VAIO VGN-A250 runing Window XP Home Edition Version 5.1
with Service Pack 2. I set up mplayer in C drive. I put "blue" into
C:\mplayer\mplayer\skins. I saw the exactly problem as the other computer. I
believe I need to change some settings but don't know how and what to change.
Please advise.

[compn]

probably mplayer compiled for a cpu that was not your own.
use svn, works for me, etc