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Mplayer fails to play videos

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From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Mplayer fails to play videos
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:25:45 +0200

Hello,

the current mplayer package crashes for me with a message like this:
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open
- 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.

I tried it on .mp4 files and on a .mov file. Compiling it with ffmpeg-3.4
instead of ffmpeg-4 solves the problem. Now I was told that anyway I had
better switch to mpv.

So I see two possible courses of action:
- Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to keep also
  this older ffmpeg package around.
- Drop mplayer, and replace it by mpv (there is a field in the package
  definition to indicate this).

What do you think?

Andreas

Message #8 received at 32191 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: 32191 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32191: Mplayer fails to play videos
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:04:41 -0400

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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:25:45PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> So I see two possible courses of action:
> - Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to keep also
>   this older ffmpeg package around.

I think we will probably need to keep ffmpeg-2 and ffmpeg-3 for a while
anyways, so we might as well fix the mplayer package now.

> - Drop mplayer, and replace it by mpv (there is a field in the package
>   definition to indicate this).

Unless mplayer development continues, the package will bitrot and we
will have to replace it with mpv eventually.

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Message #13 received at 32191-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 32191-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32191: Mplayer fails to play videos
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 23:42:45 +0200

Hello Leo,

thanks for your super fast reply!

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:04:41PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > So I see two possible courses of action:
> > - Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to keep also
> >   this older ffmpeg package around.
> I think we will probably need to keep ffmpeg-2 and ffmpeg-3 for a while
> anyways, so we might as well fix the mplayer package now.

Okay, done in commit 21e6428dc7851bf06a68beef6e4125553aef8d88.

Andreas

Message #16 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org,Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>,32191 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32191: Mplayer fails to play videos
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:23:21 +0200

On July 17, 2018 10:25:45 PM GMT+02:00, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> wrote:
... Snip
>
>
>I tried it on .mp4 files and on a .mov file. Compiling it with
>ffmpeg-3.4
>instead of ffmpeg-4 solves the problem. Now I was told that anyway I
>had
>better switch to mpv.
>
>So I see two possible courses of action:
>- Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to
>keep also
>  this older ffmpeg package around.
>- Drop mplayer, and replace it by mpv (there is a field in the package
>  definition to indicate this).
>
>What do you think?

I suggest we drop it.  Mpv can to my knowledge do all MPlayer does anyway. 

-- 
Cheers Swedebugia

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