Bug#755749: vlc: segfault when playing .avi file

[Reinhard Tartler]

Control: tag -1 upstream moreinfo
Control: severity -1 normal

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.1.4-1+b3
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Playing an .avi file results in seemingly random crashes at non reproducable points. Sometimes there is even no crash while playing a whole file.
>

That sounds like a race condition with multithreaded decoding.

Can you reproduce this crash with "avplay -threads N .../media.avi"
(with various values of N)?

Also, this is an issue that needs to be looked at upstream. Please
forward this issue with full backtrace as described at
https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace.

Thanks
Reinhard