Always reproductible with a bugged mp3 (use URL for test with mine). If I launch mplayer with a certain mp3 file, mplayer abort with this message: MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton (Family: 6, Stepping: 0) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes MMX supported but disabled MMX2 supported but disabled SSE supported but disabled 3DNow supported but disabled 3DNowExt supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: Warning unknown option cache_min at line 144 Warning unknown option cache_prefill at line 147 Warning unknown option cache_prefill at line 7 85 audio & 196 video codecs Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Playing /home/doomsday/mp3segfault_mplayer.mp3. TiVo file format detected. MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound. MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header. Video: Cannot read properties. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash. - 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 instructions there. We can't and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug. $ emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) prosussor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/ 3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ht tp://gentoo.modulix.net/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informa tik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ft p://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt curl dts eds emacs emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib jack java joystic k jpeg junit lcms libcaca libg++ libwww lua mad matroska mhash mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql na s ncurses nls nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres python q uicktime readline real samba sdl spell sqlite ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fo nts udev usb vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xml xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux el ibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS $
Still an issue with newer versions of mplayer?