mplayer-1.5 FTBFS with ffmpeg-6.0

[Joe Locash]

Subject says it all and the fix is in mplayer svn.

Should mplayer be a manual update again?

Other mplayer tickets related to this subject:

https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/15313 https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/16734

[Bruce Dubbs]

We need some more details Joe. It seems to build OK for me. However trying to run it crashes:

$ mplayer big_buck_bunny.mp4 
MPlayer 1.5-12.2.0 (C) 2000-2022 MPlayer Team
226 audio & 469 video codecs

Playing big_buck_bunny.mp4.
libavformat version 60.3.100 (external)
Mismatching header version 59.17.102
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7fee4cfcce40]Protocol name not provided, cannot determine if input is local or a network protocol, buffers and access patterns cannot be configured optimally without knowing the protocol


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.

Where is the fix in svn?

[Douglas R. Reno]

I think these might be the fixes:

​http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-cvslog/2023-February/047626.html

​http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-cvslog/2023-February/047627.html

​http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-cvslog/2023-February/047628.html

[Douglas R. Reno]

If we want to try a snapshot, we should grab it from ​http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/mplayer-checkout-snapshot.tar.bz2

[Joe Locash]

Replying to Bruce Dubbs:

We need some more details Joe. It seems to build OK for me. However trying to run it crashes:

I'm sorry Bruce. The build I did was from svn revision 38369 which is older than the 1.5 release. I rebuilt w/ the 1.5 release and it built fine but crashed the same way as you.

Where is the fix in svn?

Doug posted links, here are the commit messages:

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r38412 | reimar | 2023-02-20 17:41:00 -0500 (Mon, 20 Feb 2023) | 4 lines

configure: update for latest FFmpeg.

Just remove the AV/FF prefixes for the allformats/codecs parsing.

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r38411 | reimar | 2023-02-20 17:39:50 -0500 (Mon, 20 Feb 2023) | 2 lines

ad_spdif.c: Use proper way to set avformat option.

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r38410 | reimar | 2023-02-03 15:22:31 -0500 (Fri, 03 Feb 2023) | 5 lines

ve_lavc: Fix av_reallocp_array usage.

Reported by Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca at wxcvbn org> and
Brad Smith <brad at comstyle com>

Building svn rev 38412 is fine and doesn't crash:

$ mplayer big_buck_bunny.mp4
MPlayer UNKNOWN-12.2.0 (C) 2000-2023 MPlayer Team
226 audio & 469 video codecs

Playing big_buck_bunny.mp4.
libavformat version 60.3.100 (external)
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f3dba7d8e40]Protocol name not provided, cannot determine if input is local or a network protocol, buffers and access patterns cannot be configured optimally without knowing the protocol
[lavf] stream 0: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang eng
[lavf] stream 1: video (h264), -vid 0
VIDEO:  [H264]  640x360  24bpp  24.000 fps  612.2 kbps (74.7 kbyte/s)
libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 60.3.100 (external)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
Clip info:
 major_brand: mp42
 minor_version: 1
 compatible_brands: mp42avc1
 creation_time: 2010-02-09T01:55:39.000000Z
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 65.1 kbit/4.61% (ratio: 8134->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 22050Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vdpau] 640x360 => 640x360 Planar YV12

[Bruce Dubbs]

I applied the three patches above and rebuild mplayer, but it still did not work with ffmpeg-6.0 installed:

Playing /home/bdubbs/big_buck_bunny.mp4.
libavformat version 60.3.100 (external)
Mismatching header version 59.17.102
libavformat file format detected.
...

Looking at my /usr/lib:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      23 Mar  3 13:59 libavformat.so -> libavformat.so.60.3.100
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      24 Feb 17 12:32 libavformat.so.59 -> libavformat.so.59.27.100
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2529424 Feb 17 12:32 libavformat.so.59.27.100
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      23 Mar  3 13:59 libavformat.so.60 -> libavformat.so.60.3.100
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2541544 Mar  3 13:59 libavformat.so.60.3.100

Checking mplayer. Wow. ldd gives 218 libraries.

[Bruce Dubbs]

OK I did get mplayer to work by removing "--disable-ffmpeg_a". My conclusion is that mplayer-1.5 is incompatible with ffmpeg-6.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Updated the book to not use ffmpeg-6.

Fixed at commit 050c538d875cdabe0217f0652bb65866f0ed14b2

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed