Bug#710190: vlc: Segfault when opening a playlist containing rtsp urls

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Thu May 30 15:20:36 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> I am not familiar with libproxy internals. Due to the swarm of crash reports,
> I have made VLC 2.1 execute /usr/bin/proxy from proxy-tools in a separate
> process instead of calling libproxy directly. (This also weakens the run-time
> dependency on libproxy.) At least, VLC will not crash anymore.

Given the maturity consideration of libproxy, this seems reasonable.
Thanks for this!

>> Also, reading bug
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604934 makes me feel
>> sad and wonder, if there was some way to disable the usage of libproxy
>> in vlc altogether?
>
> For VLC 2.0, either `./configure --disable-libproxy' or build-time conflict with
> libproxy-dev ought to do. Then the plain old $http_proxy will be used.

That makes sense to me. Benjamin, I suggest to do so in both Debian
and Ubuntu. What do you think?

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard



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