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after linking vlc with glibc.2.11.2 following error is generated bu test program [0x8216fd4] main stream output error: stream chain failed for `transcode{acodec=alaw,channels=1,samplerate=8000}:rtp{dst=10.0.5.31,port-audio=7060,port-video=7062}' [0x822a984] main input error: cannot start stream outp...

while starting the application libvlc emits following error messages
LibVLC has detected an unusable buggy GNU/libc version.
Please update to version 2.8 or newer

Is this the cause of the problem ?

Using the debugger I observe that thread which is waiting on pthread_join is waiting for thread to terminate which is waiting on mutex within rtp_del_sink () function. The purpose of the while(1) loop is to create multiple vlc player instances over the time. So its a kind of stress testing. The idea...

Following is the backtrace of the complete stack with 97 threads Thread 97 (Thread -1208661104 (LWP 15077)): #0 0x00f79410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x0075a8f6 in nanosleep () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x0075a71f in sleep () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x08048a59 in vlcPlayer () #4 0x0084345b in start_thre...

While executing multiple media player in a single file, starting and stopping them, it is observed that after a while while stopping media player the thread hangs in pthread_join. I assume it expects some thread to terminate. On further exploration it is observed that there is one more thread (input...