Crashing with MPG files

[alien51]

Is it Ok to ask questions regarding v1.36? Didn't see any warning so here goes...

BSplayer 1.36 build 825 is crashing when opening certain .MPG/.MPEG files. The message is

BSplayer v1.36.825, Unhandled exception at EIP: 747F3897
If you click 'Close' application will be terminated.
Please report this info to the author with description what were you doing.
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Invalid floating point operation
EInvalidOp
Call stack: 00000000,747F3897,0040367F,00513ACE,00513E4E,00515 AAA,00517FB8,00570D68,00569736,00437819,0044FC36,0 04D364C,00439EDC,0044CE54,004D47A9,004D4320,0044CE 54,0045581B,0058C2B1

Gspot shows that only files with codec MPEG-1 crash; files with codec MP43 (S-Mpeg 4 version 3) do not crash.

I have ffdshow installed (rev 1685, from this week's release) and I can play the troublesome files with WMP11.

What could be the matter here?

[adicoto]

MS-MPEG 4v3 and MPEG1 are 2 totally different things. I asume ffdshow it's used to decode all video formats. But what about audio codecs ? Wich filters do you use ? Still ffdshow ?

[alien51]

During the installation, I selected ALL formats to be handled by ffdshow, including audio codecs (MP1, MP2, etc).

Following your hint I inspected audio codecs for the faulty files and they are MPEG-1 layer 2 (which is enabled in ffdshow). In the video files BSplayer doesn't crash they are WMA v2.

[adicoto]

I would suggest to install an alternate MPEG decoder, such as Elecard (moonlight odio dekoda), or just disable ffdshow for MPEG audio.

[alien51]

It worked!

Disabling the audio codec had no effect but disabling the MPEG video codecs got things back to normal. Strangely, when I enabled the codecs again it worked without crashing!

Thanks, I'll keep this in mind if things go bonkers again.