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In advanced preferences, I set "Input/Codecs" -> "Track Settings" - > "Subtitle track" to -1 and "Subtitle track ID" to -1. As I watch a lot of anime, these are convenient settings to have subtitle default to on. However this is causing VLC to crash when I open other videos without subtitles (which I'm not allowed to post in part or in full, for work reasons... I asked). Could someone look into this, please, so I'm not stuck using an older version of VLC? Thank you.


The weirdness:
- Nightlies before 2.1.0-RC2 - crashes (early September)
- 2.1.0-RC2 - Works perfectly <- This is what I'm stuck using now.
- Release version 2.1.0 - crashes
- Nightlies of 2.1.1 - still crashing as of today


Truncated Crashlog:
Process: VLC [6311]
Path: /Users/USER/*/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
Identifier: org.videolan.vlc
Version: 2.1.0 (2.1.0)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [190]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2013-10-13 08:49:01.192 +0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
Report Version: 10

Crashed Thread: 9

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
*** error for object 0x103992718: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed.

Thread 9 Crashed:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff8d074212 __pthread_kill + 10
1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b532b24 pthread_kill + 90
2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b576f61 abort + 143
3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b5528d5 szone_error + 580
4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b5505a6 szone_free_definite_size + 1405
5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b54a8c8 free + 199
6 libvlccore.7.dylib 0x0000000100107589 vlc_readdir + 265
7 libvlccore.7.dylib 0x00000001000a7782 subtitles_Detect + 882
8 libvlccore.7.dylib 0x0000000100095575 LoadSubtitles + 613
9 libvlccore.7.dylib 0x0000000100090f0f Init + 719
10 libvlccore.7.dylib 0x0000000100092416 Run + 38
11 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b531772 _pthread_start + 327
12 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b51e1a1 thread_start + 13

You should file a bug on our trac.

Thank you for replying. Ticket Created: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9676

Note that this is my first ticket. Hopefully I got most of the details correct...

This doesn't appear to be the same crash as mine...

This doesn't appear to be the same crash as mine...

Of course, it's not. Topic split.

I will create a new topic then.

According to Trac, this issue seems to be fixed. However, there hasn't been a new nightly build of 2.2.0 since Feb. 3rd (before the fix). Could someone look into making 2.2.0 nightlies available again? Thank you.