[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#662109: mpd: Fails to rebuild database

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 15:46:44 (CET), Max Kellermann wrote:

> On 2012/03/16 11:20, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
>> Known to whom? http://bugzilla.libav.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=mpd
>> does not bing any results.
>
> Being reported to the MPD project every other day.

And obviously not forwarded upstream.

>> Besides, skipping broken files is the job of mpd's indexer. I'm
>> therefore reassiging this issue back to the mpd package.
>
> MPD would very much like to, but unfortunately it lost control to
> libav.

This sentence does not make any sense to me.

>> If you find a file that is not correctly detected as broken (i.e.,
>> causes a segmentation fault or endless loop or similar), please provide
>> a testcase in form of a sample that is reproducible with the 'avonv' or
>> 'avplay' tool. Otherwise I have to assume that mpd is doing something
>> weird with the libavcodec API.
>
> One of many examples:
>
>  http://rghost.net/37097307

With that file, I observe an endless loop in avprobe from libav 0.8 and
libav master (git revision 01b0ade). Just out of curiousity, I also
tried FFmpeg master (git revision f645132) and could observe this
symptom with ffprobe as well.

Please file the bug upstream. You might find these guidelines helpful
(48 MB is really too large for a sample):

http://libav.org/bugreports.html


Cheers,
Reinhard

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