The older mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 works reliably but can allow remote code execution so I would prefer not to use it. Here is the typical output from mplayer-1.0.20060217: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MPlayer dev-CVS-060217-03:46-3.4.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron 4 Northwood; Pentium 4 EE/Xeon Prestonia,Gallatin (Family: 15, Stepping: 4) MMX2 supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE SSE2 Warning unknown option cache-prefill at line 147 91 audio & 206 video codecs Playing logo.mpg. Cache fill: 0.36% (30586 bytes) VIDEO: MPEG2 800x600 (aspect 1) 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) X11 error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: preinit_libvo - 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is on a Gentoo system emerged from the stage-3 tarball about 10 days ago. I have the same failure on a much older Gentoo system running on the same hardware (Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with an Nvidia GeForce 2 Go card). The older system runs a 2.4.xx kernel. Here is emerge --info: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ $ sudo emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-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 /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_US" LC_ALL="en_US" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 cdb cdparanoia cdr cli crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbus dio directfb doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode examples exif expat fam fastbuild fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gif gmp gpm gstreamer hal idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib jack jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lapack lcms libg++ libwww mad maildir memlimit mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pcre pdf pdflib perl plotutils png posix python qmail qt quicktime readline real recode ruby session simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl sse sse2 ssl subversion symlink sysvipc tcpd tetex tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis wifi win32codecs wxwindows xine xinerama xml xml2 xosd xpm xsl xv xvid zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've posted about this problem in the forums but have not gotten any help there nor from Google. At least a couple of other people in the forums seem to have related problems. One person thought it might have to do with KDE hogging the xv but I doubt it is a KDE problem because xine works fine as well as the older mplayer. The newer mplayer will work if I don't use -vo xv, but none of the non-xv outputs is satisfactory. For example -vo gl causes my computer to hang forcing me to remove the battery and unplug it in order to get going again. I didn't omit my frame pointer and I am willing to do some work to help track down this problem if someone can give me a little direction. I think this is a serious problem since the obvious work-around is to use the older version of mplayer which allows remote code execution.
there is a newer version available, still I couldn't experience your issue.
Thanks for the rapid reply. I just did an emerge sync and then emerged mplayer-1.0.20060302. It has the same problem. I realize that most people don't have this problem. I didn't report it on my older 2.4.x system because it was old and crufty. I was surprised that I had the same problem on a freshly installed Gentoo system. Everything on my system is from the stable branch (except mplayer, which I unmasked to try the latest version). The problem may be due to a quirk in my system, perhaps a strange xorg configuration or a strange combination of USE flags. But I don't know where to look. Strace doesn't provide any useful clues, there doesn't seem to be anything reported in the log files, and a diff of the mplayer-x.x.x/libvo/ directories (between working and non-working versions) is 10,000 lines long. I am willing to dig around if you can give me a clue as to where to look. I am using the stable monolithic xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6. Since it seems to be an X11 error: 11 error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) perhaps I should try to emerge a different X11 server. I am also intrigued by the earlier warning: Warning unknown option cache-prefill at line 147 Perhaps this is related to the xv problem or perhaps they have a common cause. I'm willing to work on this if you have any suggestions. I realize that this problem is probably not a high priority for you since it is not currently affecting many people.
I discovered the xvinfo command which told me the major (142) and minor (??) opcodes of the X11 error. Google then led to a thread that suggested checking my video drivers. Since I have an older nvidia card, this raised my suspicions especially since I had already been around the block with Nvidia drivers vs. the 2.6.15 kernel. I emerged the 1.0.7174-rX versions of nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel. This was just a guess because I couldn't re-find the forum thread that I thought had recommended this driver. Anyway, the problem is now gone. The newer mplayer had unearthed a problem in the older nvidia driver: 1.0.6629-r?, the one that is currently marked stable. I don't think the problem has anything to do with the kernel (even though there are other problems with nvidia in the 2.6.15 kernel) because I had the same problem with the newer mplayer under a 2.4.xx kernel as well as the 2.6.15.
