MPlayer says missing avisynth.dll when playing http://media3.7digital.com/assets/34/478661.asx

[Jg-jguk]

Hi, Thanks for making MPlayer available in Ubuntu.

I can reproduce this problem playing this ASX stream.

I manually copied these files, which had to have the same case kept from my XP machine

AVIFIL32.dll avisynth.dll DevIL.dll GDI32.dll MSACM32.dll

Unfortunately then MPlayer crashed. Let me know if you need any more info.

Kind regards
Jon

$ mplayer http://media3.7digital.com/assets/34/478661.asx
MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Sempron/Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton,Thorton
(Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

91 audio & 204 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing http://media3.7digital.com/assets/34/478661.asx.
STREAM_HTTP(1), URL: http://media3.7digital.com/assets/34/478661.asx
Resolving media3.7digital.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: media3.7digital.com
Resolving media3.7digital.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server media3.7digital.com[84.45.16.21]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 0.07% (223 bytes)
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll,
/usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll

Exiting... (End of file)

$

$ mplayer http://media3.7digital.com/assets/34/478661.asx
MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Sempron/Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton,Thorton (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

91 audio & 204 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing http://media3.7digital.com/assets/34/478661.asx.
STREAM_HTTP(1), URL: http://media3.7digital.com/assets/34/478661.asx
Resolving media3.7digital.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: media3.7digital.com
Resolving media3.7digital.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server media3.7digital.com[84.45.16.21]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 0.07% (223 bytes)

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.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

I have the same issue with mplayer on edgy.
But as it works with vlc (even without avisynth.dll), I don't think it will be useful to add this file to w32codecs packages.

As this stream seems to be a wma file, it might be a bug of mplayer or ffmpeg. I suscribe the MOTU Media Team, perhaps can they do something...

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

perhaps making sure the files have ok permissions - r-x r-x r-x or r--r--r-- would be what i would expect. mplayer might be crashing because it cant read teh files.
kk

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

Make sure the file is in the right path, where mplayer tries to read it from. Then check permissions as the previous comment suggests. I don't think either ffmpeg or mplayer in Ubuntu is responsible since we don't support w32codecs more than to provide the option for mplayer to check for it.

[Jg-jguk (jg-jguk)]

Hi KarlGoetz and Christian,

Thanks for your replies.

I double checked the permissions on the DLLs I had to add into the directory MPlayer said it could not find the files in.

/usr/local/lib/win32

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84992 2006-10-17 23:43 AVIFIL32.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 308224 2006-10-17 23:37 avisynth.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 719872 2006-10-17 23:44 DevIL.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 280064 2006-10-17 23:44 GDI32.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71680 2006-10-17 23:46 MSACM32.dll

MPlayer indicated the crash was in demux_open.. so what I think is necessary is that one of us build the latest version and get a backtrace. I'm really too short of time over unfortunately these days, so I hope one of you has time to reproduce and pass on to MPlayer guys.

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.

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

Jg-jguk wrote:
> Hi KarlGoetz and Christian,
>
hi
> MPlayer indicated the crash was in demux_open.. so what I think is necessary is that one of us build the latest version and get a backtrace. I'm really too short of time over unfortunately these days, so I hope one of you has time to reproduce and pass on to MPlayer guys.
>
I'm not running Ubuntu, so i dont have access to mplayer binaries, or
time to compile atm.
if i find time i will compile, but i doubt it unfortunately :|
kk

[Jg-jguk (jg-jguk)]

Someone running todays SVN build, 26 oct 2006 on amd64 confirmed http://media3.7digital.com/assets/34/478661.asx plays ok for them without a crash.

i cant see how to mark this resolved. it just needs a newer version of MPlayer

Kind regards
Jon

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

I didn't mark it resolved. I marked it rejected, since the bug is rather obviously in the codec rather than mplayer. If you could try SVN and see if your bug still is there with your codecs that might be helpful, but at the moment I'm inclined to say the bug is not in mplayer.

[Jg-jguk (jg-jguk)]

Hi, Thanks for your reply
I checked with the developers and it's not there in latest SVN build of
MPlayer.
Jon

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Rejecting: it needs a new version of mplayer (as said by Jg-jguk).

[Kristoffer Grundström (umeaman)]

I've got the same issue, but in another situation:

When trying to play a DVD I see following error-message in Console:

mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing VIDEO_TS.
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll
Seek failed