Hmm.. but I wrote it even crashes if I disable Xv output altogether 

 
Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> 
> > > and everything else is working ?
> >
> >   Total kernel deadlock. Nothing goes. I can not login from another machine etc.
> 
> In that case this is defintely fault of the Nvidia closed source driver
> and shuold be reported - avifile has no power to deadlock your box.
> 
> >
> >   MPlayer and xine do just fine
> >
> >   Here comes the output of mplayer -forcexv
> >
> >   This crashes too. So it does not seem to have to do with Xv
> >   Can't give you any output since as I said there is
> >   nothing going anymore when aviplay dies.
> 
> So there is one explanation:
> 
> They have introduced some bug in mutlithreaded XFree processing - howerver
> at this moment I'm unable to check their latest drivers on SMP box
> with GeForce card...
> 
> Anyway you should definitely send a bugreport to nvidia and you might
> try to install older version of their driver to see if this will help.
> 
> Another chance is I may commit my guiless less threaded testing player which
> might probably work in such case - I'll see if it would be worth to
> put this testing piece of code into something usable..
> 
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