Crash and immediate closure of VLC on reading .ape files

[sobino]

Win 7 Pro x64
VLC 2.0.1 64bit experimental and 32bit EXE installer

VLC crashes on .ape input files and immediately closes its window. You do not get any notification about that. It even crashes when just dragging and dropping files onto the window without starting to play them, no matter if you just opened a blank VLC or if you are playing back files at the moment. One example is here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/dz4j6a
A program must never crash on input data no matter how unknown it is to the program. It must always give a reasonable exception handling.

[bat999]

Maybe it is this bug ---> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5767

[sobino]

I guess it is not because in those other cases VLC at least starts to do something (playing with no sound, skipping after 6 seconds ...) while in my case it immediately closes itself without any message as soon as I drop the file onto its window. On restart it does not even recognize that it has crashed. In earlier versions with other files it could not load it at least told me "VLC has crashed. Do you want to generate a bug report?" (something like this). This does not happen with this bug.

[Lotesdelere]

I'm getting troubles with some APE files that VLC refuses to play while some other APE files are playing fine, but overall the responsiveness of the VLC interface becomes very slow when playing any APE file. Although I haven't experienced any crash yet.

Anyway, you should create a ticket on the VLC Trac with the link of this thread and provide some sample files.

[VLC_help]

Thanks. Ticket is http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7036

[fkuehne]

Hello,
can you still reproduce the same issue with VLC 2.0.2 released today? It includes an updated version of taglib.

Thanks!

[VLC_help]

Hello,
can you still reproduce the same issue with VLC 2.0.2 released today? It includes an updated version of taglib.

Thanks!

Yes. Crashes with VLC 2.0.2, and latest 2.1.0 nightlies.

[Lotesdelere]

The sample from the first post is using ID3v1 tags only and it's still crashing VLC 2.0.2.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

It is fixed after 2.0.2

[sobino]

Thanks, it works better now. No more crashes. Some files do not get played, though. Examples:
http://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/6%2B ... kDLf75xM6A
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fkh497

[Lotesdelere]

Some files do not get played, though. Examples:
http://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/6%2B ... kDLf75xM6A
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fkh497

You should create a new ticket on the VLC Trac with the links to this thread and to the sample files.

[bat999]

You should create a new ticket on the VLC Trac with the links to this thread and to the sample files.

Hi
I used "Track01.ape" from sobino above and de-compressed it to wav.
Then re-compressed it to ape using "Monkey's Audio 4.10" from here ---> http://www.monkeysaudio.com/download.html
to create "Track02.ape".

"Track01.ape" originally wouldn't play in VLC, but afterwards "Track02.ape" plays OK.
VLC media player 2.1.0-git Rincewind (revision 4e70b52)


The difference between them?
The original one was created using "Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode)" and it has some meta-data.

Filed a trac report here ---> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7349


The two files are here ---> http://www.mediafire.com/?ogvail7u7oomyau

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General Complete name : Track01.ape Format : Monkey's Audio File size : 44.2 MiB Duration : 10mn 34s Overall bit rate : 585 Kbps Album : Unknown Title Track name : Track01 Track name/Position : 01 Track name/Total : 04 Performer : Unknown Artist Encoded by : Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) Comment : Track 1 Audio Format : Monkey's Audio Duration : 10mn 34s Bit rate : 585 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossless Compression ratio : 2.414 Stream size : 44.2 MiB (100%) Encoding settings : Normal

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General Complete name : Track02.ape Format : Monkey's Audio File size : 44.2 MiB Duration : 10mn 34s Overall bit rate : 585 Kbps Audio Format : Monkey's Audio Duration : 10mn 34s Bit rate : 585 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossless Compression ratio : 2.414 Stream size : 44.2 MiB (100%) Encoding settings : Normal

[Lotesdelere]

I think metadata is not the problem. From my tests I've noticed the files created with the executable MAC.exe are playing fine with VLC whilst the files created through a third party app with the library MACDll.dll are not properly playing.

[bat999]

I think metadata is not the problem.

Hi
I've tagged "Track02.ape" using EasyTAG.
It still plays OK.
So probably meta-data isn't the problem.

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General Complete name : Track02.ape Format : Monkey's Audio File size : 44.2 MiB Duration : 10mn 34s Overall bit rate : 585 Kbps Album : Unknown Title Track name : Track02 Performer : Unknown Artist Genre : Unknown Comment : Track 2 Audio Format : Monkey's Audio Duration : 10mn 34s Bit rate : 585 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossless Compression ratio : 2.414 Stream size : 44.2 MiB (100%) Encoding settings : Normal