Microsoft Smooth Streaming file immediate crash VLC 2.1.3

[ricsip]

Hi,

open any of these URLs:

hxxp://dme.myshowroom.tv/microsoft/6e5fab6c-f59f-48ec-b61a-9f58160224c4/ms_110309_01_492c0bbd-064e-4dcc-863f-b9090428d0e0.ism/Manifest
hxxp://dme.myshowroom.tv/microsoft/373eb6d7-7611-4a71-865e-e46cd2d7ef1c/ms_110309_02_25af227a-719a-4d6e-92b8-0313747018f2.ism/Manifest
hxxp://dme.myshowroom.tv/microsoft/8b96670c-a730-4364-8642-4611af375944/ms_110310_01_e78090b1-d793-4713-ae01-7c04a7349302.ism/Manifest

(replace xx with the obvious two letters...)

It immediately crashes VLC 2.1.3. I cannot share any crashdump, as there is no useful crashdump generated during the crash (I see only a 3 byte "large" crashdump file...). Do I need to manually enable crashdump generation in VLC somewhere?

For your information this video can be started for playback:
hxxp://mediadl.microsoft.com/mediadl/iisnet/smoothmedia/Experience/BigBuckBunny_720p.ism/Manifest
(replace xx with the obvious two letters...)

[ricsip]

I am willing to provide crashdump if it helps solving this problem and if somebody tells me how can I enforce a complete one instead of this 3-byte one.

[ricsip]

If anybody gives me a clue why the crashlog is so empty.. all I found on the terribly (un)mantained wiki documentation page, that crashlog is generated automatically, filled with lot of details. Mine is 3 bytes, and does not seem to contain anything.

[veerhees]

I'm quite sure that VLC crashes while parsing the manifest file. So i'm thinking that maybe the manifest format is unsupported.

It seems that the smooth streaming 'plugin' is completely broken. I would be glad if someone would write trac report -- because it seems that no devs hangs in these forums...

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/

[ricsip]

There is hope there will be an improved Smooth streaming support in VLC in the foreseable future:

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/11377

the crash has been fixed in the nightly build 20140504, the videos can be played "quasi-successfully"

Now the new issue is that the videos are barely watchable, there are serious continual jumps in the content.

I really hope it will be fixed, trac case is opened, and it seems a developer has already started finding a solution (hopefully):
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/11426