Bug#699215: vlc: segfaults while opening certain videos.

[David Smith]

tags 699215 patch
thanks

I can confirm that applying the patch from upstream to the version of 
VLC in Debian Wheezy fixes the crash.

Patch from upstream attached.

Thanks for your time.

-David

On 01/29/2013 11:39 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Tags 699215 moreinfo
> Severity 699215 minor
> stop
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> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:11 AM, David Smith<sidicas2 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> notfound 699215 2.0.5-1
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> On 01/29/2013 01:50 PM, David M Smith wrote:
>>> Package: vlc
>>> Version: 2.0.3-4
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> vlc segfaults while opening some H.264 videos.
>>>
>>> gdb output below.
>>>
>> This crash does not happen while using the version of VLC in Debian unstable
>> 2.0.5-1. The video files open just fine.
>>
> See http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace for more information how
> to get nicer backtraces.
>
> I notice that you have configured VAAPI in the vlc preferences. Does
> the problem still appear if you disable hardware acceleration via
> VAAPI?
>
> Can you reproduce the crashes with the avplay utility found in the
> libav-tools package?
>
>

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