Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:19:27 -0400 From: Elliot Robinson <elliot.robinson@argiopetech.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 - mplayer issue Message-ID: <CAG7kECPvxkeL1fiPk7UxMft1=PzvXkcRdtT5B1G7%2B5F6SsFuPw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53F88676.3060702@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <53F88676.3060702@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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Possibly orthogonal to your question, but is it an option to consider another product? MPV is an mplayer2 fork (which was [until development stalled] a fork of/drop-in replacement for mplayer), and seems to be pretty well supported on FreeBSD. It's pretty featureful (10-bit video and whatnot), and has a relatively fast development cycle (particularly compared to the crawl mplayer operates at), though it's at the expense of losing mencoder. Some of the command-line flags have been changed as well, which may require tweaking in your work-related tools (if they can be tweaked). Barring that, I'd recompile with debug flags and run in gdb/lldb. Wait till it locks, C-c, 'bt'. It's almost certainly some manner of deadlock if you're stuck in urdlck, which may be a bug in mplayer's threading or in pthreads. Either way, it'd help to know where the problem lock is. --- Elliot Robinson PGP Key: 9FEDE59A On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Da Rock < freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > Yet another problem in the new install saga - thankfully I have a mostly > useable machine now. > > This issue hasn't been a high priority on the list - until now. Mplayer > won't run and I can't entertain myself :) Actually, its a bit more serious > than that as I need it for work, and several other related tools use it too. > > After install I ran umplayer and it gave me nothing; so I ran mplayer at > the cli and it did nothing - and I mean absolutely nothing. Even with -vvvv > there is not a spot of output after the command is entered. > > So I ran truss, and didn't see anything useful there either. Then I looked > at top to see if it was burning the cpu at all - nope. All I see is mplayer > in a urdlck condition. > > Googling this points to an issue in 10 with posix compatibility and to > avoid it in the application programming. Some ssh problems too. > > Any ideas what could be wrong? Or how to diagnose? > > Cheers > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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