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0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 08 May 2009 00:33
by vinc17
With VLC 0.9.9a on my Mac OS X 10.4.11 PowerPC machine (Power Mac G5 dual), I get a reproducible crash on any recursive XSPF playlist. This is a regression: I had no such problems with VLC 0.9.8a. To reproduce the crash, create a file test.xspf of the form:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<playlist xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" version="1">
<trackList>
<track>
<location>file:///Users/vinc17/file1.xspf</location>
</track>
<track>
<location>file:///Users/vinc17/file2.xspf</location>
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>
- Start VLC.
- Click on Play.
- Open the test.xspf file (and click OK).
After a few seconds, VLC crashes. This is 100% reproducible.
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 08 May 2009 00:36
by vinc17
I forgot to say that the files file1.xspf and file2.xspf do not even need to exist.
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 11 May 2009 01:43
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Try with 1.0 and fill a bug.
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 11 May 2009 02:23
by vinc17
Try with 1.0 and fill a bug.
Where can I find 1.0? The VideoLAN website mentions 0.9.9a only! And there are no nightly builds for my machine (Mac OS X / PowerPC).
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 12 May 2009 20:47
by ajmas
You will need a nightly at this point:
http://nightlies.videolan.org
There should also be a release candidate (RC) available soon. J-B can you point to the page where the RC will be available from?
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 12 May 2009 20:51
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 12 May 2009 23:25
by vinc17
As I've said, I can't find any nightly there (
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx/?C=M;O=D):
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Icon Name Last modified Size Description[DIR] Parent Directory -
[DIR] backup/ 01-May-2009 18:49 -
[TXT] HEADER.html 15-Feb-2009 21:02 829
My machine is a Mac OS X platform. This won't work!
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 15 May 2009 06:09
by ajmas
Download the file labelled 'latest' from:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx/?C=M;O=D , add the .zip extension and then extract it.
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 15 May 2009 09:40
by vinc17
I don't see a file 'latest' at this URL. See what I obtain with Firefox:
Note: the backup directory is empty.
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 26 May 2009 22:31
by derHindemith
I have this problem as well, and as far as I understand it a) the proper link is:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/ and b) since version 1.0 is dropping osx 10.4 support, that's not really a viable solution, since, at least the two posters here are not using 10.5
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 27 May 2009 01:23
by vinc17
This is not the proper link either: I have a PowerPC machine, not an x86 one.
It isn't a good idea to drop 10.4 support, and this is even the first software I know that drops 10.4 support. I won't upgrade to 10.5 because first I have hardware not supported by Leopard, and also because my machine is already 4 years old and I don't want to spend much money on it.
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 27 May 2009 03:38
by nikola23
Actually, it's not the first to drop support for 10.4. For instance Adium,
http://adium.im/blog/2009/05/14-beta-134-release/ It isn't their fault that apple makes programming for OSX more difficult than it should be.
Re: 0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists
Posted: 27 May 2009 10:54
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Apple, with llvm, make it impossible to use on OSX.4