[ATrpms-users] firefox crash viewing non-flash video on CentOS 5.5

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Chris Schanzle <schanzle at nist.gov> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Firefox and seamonkey crash on CentOS 5.5 (we use x86_64, haven't tried
> i386) when they encounter non-flash video files, e.g.,
> http://www.nist.gov/itl/math/hpcvg/upload/vaneRheom_20101203_02.wmv  or
> other videos at, for example,
> <http://www.nist.gov/itl/math/hpcvg/concretemm.cfm>.  I've also tested
> some other .avi's with no success.
>
> This started happening about 6-8 weeks ago.  mplayer from the command
> line plays the videos fine.
>
> Can't quite put my finger on if it's gecko-mediaplayer or gmplayer.
>
> I've got a bunch of debuginfo's installed, probably not all the needed
> ones, but note that
>
> http://dl.atrpms.net/debug/el5-x86_64/atrpms/stable/mplayer-debuginfo-1.0-78_snap20101002.el5.x86_64.rpm
> is only 10KB in size and 'rpm -ql' reports no files.
>
> gmplayer (part of mplayer package) dies on startup.  Looks like a
> smoking gun to me.  Dies from the command line on i386 and x86_64 with
> signal 11.
>
>
Please, check if gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer

have the same version. You cannot mix 1.0 and 0.9...

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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