mplayer causes panic: page fault

[Stefan Ehmann]

On Monday 28 May 2007 22:26:34 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 22:13 +0200, Lars Engels wrote:
> > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:57:52PM +0200, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > > I get a panic when playing certain .wmv files (wmv9dmo) with mplayer on
> > > my i386 notebook.
> > >
> > > This is on a few days old current, all ports deleted and rebuild after
> > > the recent changes. Doesn't seem to be audio/video related since it
> > > also happens with audio/video NULL output. Might be something triggered
> > > by wmv9dmod.dll.
> > >
> > > I'm sure this has worked before. Also, it works on my 6.2 PC.
> >
> > <aol>me too!</aol>
> >
> > With a 5 days old current and all world and ports freshly built, my box
> > reboots when I want to play a .wmv file with mplayer.
>
> See the thread, "Panic on -CURRENT after LDT changes."  This crash looks
> similar.  There is a patch to try, but it may have mixed results based
> on some recent feedback.
>

Thanks, I've just found the thread myself.

mplayer no longer causes a panic with the patch.

Stefan