#1140534 mpv: some videos crash mpv with vo=gpu

Package:
mpv
Source:
mpv
Description:
video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
Submitter:
Rui Mathias
Date:
2026-06-22 18:53:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1140534#5
Date:
2026-06-22 09:34:58 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Most videos play well in mpv. But I happened across one that consistently crashes mpv.

When I play this video in mpv --no-config, it crashes with a segmentation fault.

When I additionally pass --vo=xv the video plays well, so it's probably a bug of the default vo=gpu.

On my other computer (NixOS) I downloaded mpv 0.35.1 and the video played well in all cases.

I have attached the video (about 4 megabytes). It can also be downloaded from YouTube (id: L-qB2s5RZ9w, format 134+251). It doesn't need to be viewed in its entirety to cause a crash, merely opened and unpaused.

The reportbug program suggested upgrading mpv from unstable or testing, but I don't think I can do this on my i686 machine. If this can be done, I'd like to know how.

#1140534#10
Date:
2026-06-22 18:50:02 UTC
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To:
I quickly tested the same debian install on a different system and couldn't reproduce the bug, so it's likely hardware-dependant.