Opening some video files causes vlc to crash. Opened with double click from file manager or run from a terminal. *** Error in `vlc': free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x00007f6a5c1198c0 *** Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 4311 [details] vlccrash.txt Attaching vlccrash.txt which has the terminal output and backtrace from the crash and also mediainfo details of the file.
Hi Claire, can you please upload a reproducing file (or the reproducing beginning thereof, which is often enough)? VLC seems to work fine here. I also see it is Mageia 3 i586 (is it correct?) I guess I'll have to use a VM. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish
It may be protected by copyright Shlomi, sadly I can't upload it. I could speak with you privately about this though.
It is Mageia 3 x86_64 actually
Hardware: i586 => x86_64
Created attachment 4357 [details] old .config/vlc/vlcrc which crashed
Created attachment 4358 [details] current vlcrc which doesn't crash
One thing that jumps out is perhaps ffmpeg using hardware
Hi Claire, (In reply to claire robinson from comment #7) > One thing that jumps out is perhaps ffmpeg using hardware thanks for the input and providing the vlcrc. Playing the .mp4 file you sent with the offending vlcrc works for me fine on: 1. On my desktop machine running Cauldron with an Intel graphics card and a Core i3 processor. 2. On my laptop running Cauldron with an ATI Mobility Radeon card (cannot run x86-64 VMs there due to a CPU limitation). 3. On an x86_64 VBox VM running Mageia Linux 3. Anyway, please provide some details about the hardware where this failure happens, and you can also try bisecting the configuration until you find the directive or set of directives that cause the problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisection_%28software_engineering%29 Thanks! Regards, -- Shlomi Fish
Hi, in addition to what I wrote, you may wish to find a file that reproduces the problem and that is under a less restrictive licence. You can download some free-as-in-speech files from http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ and you can try converting a file from a different format into something similar to what you have using ffmpeg. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish
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Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD