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yet another fatal bugfix :)
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date Sun, 13 May 2001 17:21:55 +0000
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1 Known bugs:
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2 ~~~~~~~~~~~
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4 Special system/cpu-specific bugs/problems:
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5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6 1. SIGILL (signal 4) in draw_frame, on P3 (mostly with 2.2.x kernels):
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7 Problem: movups is crashing in libvo/fastmemcpy.h
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8 Workaround: ./configure --disable-fastmemcpy
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9 SOLVED: disabled SSE code in fastmemcpy.h ;(
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11 2. No image (black image) in RGB 16bpp (x11,dga,fbdev,svga) playing
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12 MPEG files on SMP machine:
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13 Problem: bug(?) in MMX YV12->RGB16 converter code
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14 Workaround: ./configure --disable-mmx
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16 3. SIGILL or other fault at loading l3codeca.acm:
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17 Problem: shared libs are loaded to 0x00xxxxxx instead of 0x40xxxxxx
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18 Workaround: mplayer -afm 1 ...
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19 SOLVED: you are using some security kernel patch, like OpenWall etc.
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21 Please contact me if you experienced any of the above problems. We need
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22 people to test fixes and send us as many system details information as
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23 possible (kernel+libc+gcc+binutils version, test results, /proc/cpuinfo etc)
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24 because these are system-dependent problems and aren't reproducable here.
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25 Please tell me if you can fix them or you are only a user.
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26 Unfortunately we can't reproduce these here, so it's very hard to fix.
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28 Various A-V sync and other audio problems:
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30 General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):
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31 - bad select() in audio driver (including ALSA's OSS emulation)
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32 Workaround: ./configure --disable-select
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33 - audio buffer problems
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34 Workaround: mplayer -abs option
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35 - slow machine (cpu or vga)
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36 try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver:
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37 Workaround: buy a faster card or read DOCS/VIDEOCARDS about how to speed up
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39 Audio delay specific to one or a few files:
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40 - bad file (pleae upload the file, so we can check & fix)
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41 Workaround: -ni or -bps option
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42 -delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay
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43 - your soundcard doesn't support 48Khz playback
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44 Workaround: buy a better soundcard...
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45 - file has VBR mp3 audio
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46 Workaround: mplayer -mc 0
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48 After many > or ^ (fast forward) audio vs. video is going out of sync (ASF/AVI)
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49 - bug in mplayer code (a-v sync probs after seek... not really bug but
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50 my avi/asf seeking code is not perfect yet)
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52 Signal 11 in decode_audio:
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53 - mp3lib doesn't handle (yet) well bad/broken audio streams
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54 Workaround: -afm 4
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55 - if it's still bad, try with -nosound [and report the bug, see BUGREPORTS]
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57 No sound at all:
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58 - your file uses an unsupported codec
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59 Workaround: read DOCS/CODECS, and help us adding support for it
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61 Video-out problems:
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63 First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
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64 supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
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65 Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't except this from x11 or dga.
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67 [TODO: known libvo bugs]
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70 A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team