Bug 2023

Summary:	Mplayer segfaults on ASS subtitles
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas>
Component:	mplayer	Assignee:	Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	adamw, joe, kwizart, pavel.lisy
Priority:	P5
Version:	16
Hardware:	All
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2011-11-10 10:46:23 CET

I have upgraded my laptop to Fedora 16, and mplayer started dying after several seconds with signal 11. I have discovered that the problem occurs when I enable
-ass subtitles rendering. Without -ass, subtitles look ugly, but at least mplayer does not crash. I have tested with several videos in various containers (mkv with internal ASS subtitles, avi with external .srt subtitles, etc.).
The problem is with and only with -ass switch enabled, and apparently mplayer crashes just before displaying the first subtitle. My mplayer version is

mplayer-1.0-0.126.20110816svn.fc16.x86_64

Comment 1 Joseph D. Wagner 2011-11-14 04:52:29 CET

This is due to an upstream bug in libass.  See here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753065

Please follow the instructions for updating libass.

If it resolves your issue, please vote on it here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libass-0.10.0-1.fc16

Comment 2 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2011-11-14 12:12:22 CET

libass-0.10.0-1.fc16 fixes the problem for me. Vote added. Thanks!

Comment 3 Pavel Lisy 2011-11-18 10:19:48 CET

+1

Comment 4 Joseph D. Wagner 2011-12-04 06:54:35 CET

The issue is not a bug with mplayer, but a bug with libass.  Upgrading to libass 0.10.0 resolves the issue.