Bug#690948: mplayer makes the screen black when attempting to play some FLV files from Youtube

[Russell Coker]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2
Severity: normal

youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-iepu3EtyE

I used the version of youtube-dl from Unstable to get the above video (the
version from Wheezy didn't work), apart from that the system is running Wheezy.

jc at xev:/tmp$ ls -l L-iepu3EtyE.flv
-rw-r--r--. 1 rjc rjc 36771965 Oct  3  2009 L-iepu3EtyE.flv
rjc at xev:/tmp$ sha1sum L-iepu3EtyE.flv
d54831be54259b43064810738417209964057b0f  L-iepu3EtyE.flv

Above are the details of the file I was playing, you should be able to
download it from Youtube for test purposes, but I can provide a copy if you
need it.

mplayer L-iepu3EtyE.flv > out 2> err

I ran the above command to play the resulting file and the display went black
as the monitor made a strange sound.  I pressed CTRL-ALT-F1 to go to a virtual
console and then ALT-F7 to return to my X session and the display was then
correct without any corruption and mplayer was displaying lots of error
messages (I will attach a tar file with all the errors).

This is not the only Youtube file that has such a problem, it seems that
most new downloads from Youtube have the same problem on this system.  My
collection of older flv files from Youtube all play correctly so it doesn't
seem that mplayer has changed, maybe there's something new Youtube is doing.

The same file plays correctly on another AMD64 system running Wheezy so I
guess that the video card probably has something to do with it.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  libaa1                            1.4p5-40
ii  libasound2                        1.0.25-4
ii  libavcodec53                      6:0.8.3-7
ii  libavformat53                     6:0.8.3-7
ii  libavutil51                       6:0.8.3-7
ii  libbluray1                        1:0.2.2-1
ii  libc6                             2.13-35
ii  libcaca0                          0.99.beta18-1
ii  libcdparanoia0                    3.10.2+debian-10.1
ii  libdca0                           0.0.5-5
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9                 1.2.10.0-5
ii  libdvdnav4                        4.2.0+20120524-2
ii  libdvdread4                       4.2.0+20120521-2
ii  libenca0                          1.13-4
ii  libesd0                           0.2.41-10+b1
ii  libfaad2                          2.7-8
ii  libfontconfig1                    2.9.0-7
ii  libfreetype6                      2.4.9-1
ii  libfribidi0                       0.19.2-3
ii  libgcc1                           1:4.7.1-7
ii  libgif4                           4.1.6-9.1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]          8.0.4-2
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116]  1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37-4.1
ii  libjpeg8                          8d-1
ii  liblircclient0                    0.9.0~pre1-1
ii  liblzo2-2                         2.06-1
ii  libmp3lame0                       3.99.5+repack1-3
ii  libmpeg2-4                        0.5.1-3
ii  libncurses5                       5.9-10
ii  libogg0                           1.3.0-4
ii  libopenal1                        1:1.14-4
ii  libpng12-0                        1.2.49-1
ii  libpostproc52                     6:0.8.3-7
ii  libpulse0                         2.0-6
ii  libsdl1.2debian                   1.2.15-5
ii  libsmbclient                      2:3.6.6-3
ii  libspeex1                         1.2~rc1-6
ii  libstdc++6                        4.7.1-7
ii  libsvga1                          1:1.4.3-33
ii  libswscale2                       6:0.8.3-7
ii  libtheora0                        1.1.1+dfsg.1-3.1
ii  libtinfo5                         5.9-10
ii  libvdpau1                         0.4.1-7
ii  libx11-6                          2:1.5.0-1
ii  libx264-123                       2:0.123.2189+git35cf912-1
ii  libxext6                          2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxinerama1                      2:1.1.2-1
ii  libxv1                            2:1.0.7-1
ii  libxvidcore4                      2:1.3.2-9
ii  libxvmc1                          2:1.0.7-1
ii  libxxf86dga1                      2:1.1.3-2
ii  libxxf86vm1                       1:1.1.2-1
ii  zlib1g                            1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2                              1.0.6-4
ii  fontconfig                         2.9.0-7
ii  fonts-freefont-ttf [ttf-freefont]  20120503-1
pn  mplayer-doc                        <none>
pn  netselect | fping                  <none>
ii  ttf-freefont                       20120503-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf changed:
zoom=yes
ao=pulse,alsa,sdl:aalib
stop-xscreensaver=yes
joystick=no


-- no debconf information