Bug#702581: vlc: VLC crashes in libeml on some video files (mkv, h.264)

[Reinhard Tartler]

tags -1 moreinfo
severity -1 normal
stop


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Lorenz H-S <lorenz-dev at lgh-alumni.de> wrote:
> vlc reproducibly crashes each time at exactly the same position a few seconds
> into a broken matroska file. A full backtrace from a gdb session is attached.
> Unfortunately, I cannot share the file publicly for copyright reasons.
>
> mplayer2 cannot play the file either, but plays an additional second or so. A
> log of that is attached as well. I do not dispute the fact that the file is
> broken, but VLC's error handling should catch that and exit gracefully.
>
> Should you need more information, I am happy to help you in any way possible.

Without the sample in question, there is very little that we can do
about this problem. Nevertheless, please try to reproduce this issue
with the /usr/bin/avplay utility as found in the libav-tools pacakge.
Please also make sure that you have the 'libav-dbg' package installed.
Then please follow the bug submission guidelines outlined on
http://libav.org/bugreports.html. The guidelines also contain
instructions how to generate a minimal sample that allows to reproduce
the issue.


Kind regards,
Reinhard



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regards,
    Reinhard