cockpit error or bug?
Posted: 15 Jan 2008 22:56
Running VLC 0.8.6d (wxWidgets inerface) on windows xp sp3rc, I hope to use VLC to drive a channel on a private television cable system which, to the computer, electrically and logically looks like a television set. after many hours of successful operation, running a VLC playlist, a vlc.exe application exception occurs; the windows doctor watson log shows "exception number c0000005 (access violation)."
I've read User Support - Help and searched the VideoLAN forums, including FAQ, Report Bugs and Documentation. Nowhere have I found this particular problem. New to this field, i can't determine whether the problem is a bug. And I'm not sure how much information is needed to get help.
Can someone offer advice on these questions?
The initial testing was done on a Pentium 4 computer 2.4GHz with 512MB of ram and a few dozen gigs of free drive space. Windows had never had a service pack installed. The video card is an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500.
The first access violation occurred after about 30 hours of repeating a playlist of seven .iso files (the content of which can be used to burn a movie dvd), each containing a movie of length one hour to one hour and 30 minutes. i estimate about ten hours required to run the playlist once before repeating.
I updated Windows with service pack 3 release candidate and the test ran 18 hours before an access violation occurred. I updated the video card driver and the next test ran 27 hours. I changed to a different set of .iso files, only four files in the playlist (approximately 5 hours to play the list), and the next test ran 45 hours before an access violation occurred.
The VLC Preferences have not been changed since VLC was installed. I have the windows doctor watson log and the system administration event viewer data for these crashes.
Is this a bug? What do I do next?
--David
I've read User Support - Help and searched the VideoLAN forums, including FAQ, Report Bugs and Documentation. Nowhere have I found this particular problem. New to this field, i can't determine whether the problem is a bug. And I'm not sure how much information is needed to get help.
Can someone offer advice on these questions?
The initial testing was done on a Pentium 4 computer 2.4GHz with 512MB of ram and a few dozen gigs of free drive space. Windows had never had a service pack installed. The video card is an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500.
The first access violation occurred after about 30 hours of repeating a playlist of seven .iso files (the content of which can be used to burn a movie dvd), each containing a movie of length one hour to one hour and 30 minutes. i estimate about ten hours required to run the playlist once before repeating.
I updated Windows with service pack 3 release candidate and the test ran 18 hours before an access violation occurred. I updated the video card driver and the next test ran 27 hours. I changed to a different set of .iso files, only four files in the playlist (approximately 5 hours to play the list), and the next test ran 45 hours before an access violation occurred.
The VLC Preferences have not been changed since VLC was installed. I have the windows doctor watson log and the system administration event viewer data for these crashes.
Is this a bug? What do I do next?
--David