mplayer crashes during the autoscan

[jaypee70]

Hi all.
I try to to encode a .dv-file to divX, but mplayer crashes when he tries to autoscan the input .dv movie
After mplayer has been closed, the information line above the "Open.. field" doesn´t show any information, sometimes only the audio information.
Encoding to divX (libavec) with mencoder fails, encoding with ffmpeg works.
I reinstalled the binaries, but no change.

Any ideas ?
jaypee

[major]

Could you try these commands in terminal mode, and post the result.

ls -l /usr/bin/mplayer

and:

ls -l /usr/bin/mencoder

[jaypee70]

Terminal says:

Last login: Wed Jan 7 20:36:51 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
[powerbook:~] jaypeepb% ls -l /usr/bin/mplayer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4658648 7 Jan 18:55 /usr/bin/mplayer
[powerbook:~] jaypeepb% ls -l /usr/bin/mencoder
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jaypeepb admin 4549296 7 Jan 18:55 /usr/bin/mencoder
[powerbook:~] jaypeepb%


jaypee

[major]

This is OK.

Does your file have a .dv or .mov extension? Does changing the extension fix, and does enabling "Open Terminal window" change anything?

[jaypee70]

Changing the extension doesn´t change anything.
Mplayer crashes, only audio info is displayed.
When I then try to encode with terminal window open it says:


Last login: Wed Jan 7 21:01:03 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
pbpaste | sh
[powerbook:~] jaypeepb% pbpaste | sh
Encoding started on Wed Jan 7 21:01:04 CET 2004
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /sw/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MEncoder dev-CVS-030226-15:00-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

AltiVec found
Reading /Users/jaypeepb/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/Users/jaypeepb/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Reading config file /Users/jaypeepb/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x462CD80
MPEG-PS file format detected.
Encrypted VOB file (not compiled with libcss support)! Read DOCS/cd-dvd.html.
....

Encrypted VOB file (not compiled with libcss support)! Read DOCS/cd-
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header.
Video: Cannot read properties.
Exiting...
[powerbook:~] jaypeepb%

[major]

Try to reexport your file as MOV (DV) with Quicktime Player.

[jaypee70]

Successful.
mplayer autoscanned the file correctly now.

But where´s the problem ?
The original .dv was exported from imovie as "Quicktime movie/dv high quality"

[KingAdRock]

I think I'm getting the same issue.

Scenario: 5GB .mov digital video file. Mplayer crashes during scan of file.

From the crash report Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000030

From Terminal (using commands below):
Last login: Wed Feb 4 21:25:02 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Erins-Computer:~ Jon$ ls -l /usr/bin/mplayer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4658648 4 Feb 17:19 /usr/bin/mplayer
Erins-Computer:~ Jon$ ls -l /usr/bin/mencoder
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4549296 4 Feb 17:19 /usr/bin/mencoder

The file has an .mov extension. I'll try Quicktime Player.

KAR

[Arnaut]

I had the same problems like you with .dv material from iMovie 3;
I could get mplayer to scan it by exporting it differently:
Choose export, then QT Film; use the setting dv-stream, and go to options; choose video medium quality and audio 32.000 Hz and locked/protected
It then works fine fo me, and i can use ffmpeg to export to DivX .avi

[KingAdRock]

Arnaut,

Thanks for the help. I used FCE2 to export as DV. And, we got about 1/2 way through before the entire computer crashed. I'm trying again using mplayer to decode instead of Quicktime. Has anyone had issues with QT6.5?

KAR