[Angstrom-distro-users] mplayer woes

[Andrew Zabolotny]

From Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:05:14 +0400
Andrew Zabolotny <zap at homelink.ru> wrote:

> Interesting though that it seems to leak memory (?) or something, so
> that I can watch just one video in a single sessson, trying to run
> mplayer second time puts Zaurus into a continuous swapping mode and
> usually it's easier just to reset the device. Is there any cure to
> this?

I figured out what happens. Sometimes (not always? if I run a small AVI
this doesn't happen) mplayer goes nuts and starts to write to unaligned
addresses. My syslog is then full of this:

Oct 14 16:54:22 spitz user.warn kernel: Alignment trap: mplayer (1681)
PC=0x002ea4a0 Instr =0xe794c1c3 Address=0x0063d047 FSR
0x013 Oct 14 16:54:22 spitz user.warn kernel: Alignment trap: mplayer
(1681) PC=0x002ea4a0 Instr =0xe794c1c3 Address=0x0063d049 FSR
0x013 Oct 14 16:54:22 spitz user.warn kernel: Alignment trap: mplayer
(1681) PC=0x002ea4a0 Instr =0xe794c1c3 Address=0x0063d04a FSR
0x013 Oct 14 16:54:22 spitz user.warn kernel: Alignment trap: mplayer
(1681) PC=0x002ea4a0 Instr =0xe794c1c3 Address=0x0063d04b FSR
0x013                                                  

And obviously writing a syslog entry for every mplayer instruction
brings the device to its knees. So it looks like a mplayer bug.

-- 
Andrew
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