Bug 80511 – Mplayer crashes when playing .wmv files

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description STefan 2005-02-02 13:37:12 UTC]

Mplayer crashes when you try to view *.wmv video files.
I compiled Mplayer with -fstack-protector

When I don't compile Mplayer with -fstack-protector Mplayer works and plays the video.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-02-02 14:14:35 UTC]

`emerge --info`

[Comment 2 STefan 2005-02-03 02:37:36 UTC]

Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec  1 2004, 22:11:40)]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -m3dnow -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -m3dnow -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl directfb dvd encode esd f77 fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sasl scanner sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_nvidia"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 3 Chris White (RETIRED) 2005-02-05 22:57:37 UTC]

.wmv files use win32 dll's for playback and don't play nice with stack-protector.  That said, no real way for me to fix them as they aren't open-sourced..