Bug#671290: vlc hangs at start of video for certain videos

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Hi Edward

On 2012-05-02 23:10:28, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.0.1-4
> 
> I have just installed Debian testing (wheezy) amd64 on May 1, 2012.
> 
> uname -a gives:
> 
> Linux c-76-111-67-198 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Apr 15 16:47:38 UTC 2012
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> vlc hangs at the start of certain video files when the file is played.  I
> got the output at the end of this file using "vlc -vv".  I had to use
> kill -9 to get rid of the vlc process.
> 
> My machine does not have any speakers.
> 
> At the advice of the vlc webpage, I deleted
>   ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc
> The hang was the same before and after deleting vlcrc.

I suppose you didn't get Rémi's message:

On 2013-02-05 20:54:37, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Unfortunately, that's not a very helpful description and the debug log cannot 
> really point out why VLC would dead lock. For that kind of bug, we really need 
> a symbolic threaded stack trace of the jammed process, as gdb can provide.

Could you please test if the bug still exists in recent versions of vlc?
If so, please attach a backtrace (install vlc-dbg and follow the
instructions from https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace). Thanks

Regards
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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