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

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2014-08-16 19:13:46, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 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.

Any news here? vlc and libav were updated to a new major version. Is
this still an issue?

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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