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When I open an xspf playlist and click to Playlist->Show Playlist so I can edit it, 9 out of 10 times VLC crashes. When it doesn't the names of the files in the playlist don't appear. This problems didn't occur with version 0.9.8

PS: This problem doesn't happen with .m3u playlists

Could you share you playlist to us? My playlists work without issues.

Of course I can give you my playlist. But don't you also need the files of the playlist to see if it's working?

Anyway this is a link to my playlist file http://rapidshare.com/files/217547962/monster.xspf.html

But don't you also need the files of the playlist to see if it's working?

No. Then it would be media file related, not playlist.

And I cannot duplicate the crash.

Hi, it also happend to me when using windows XP (pro). When using Vista, everything is working fine. Hope this can help you.

Some more details:
0.9.9 crashes when using Windows XP and double-click to the saved .xspf file.
However, if you select to display the playlist first (empty window that pops up) and next loading the playlist, the playlist is loaded (-> no crash)

When using vista: double-click the .xspf icon, videolan starts as expected with the playlist loaded --> everything OK

Just going to post same problem,

What happens with mine is on clicking the xspf i get a crash, does not happen when only one item is in list, but then i get no name in the playlist window

If i start a new playlist then i get a crash when closing vlc

joolz

I have the exact same problems. Clicking on a .xspf crashes vlc and if I load a xspf from playlist --> load playlist file, the video filenames don't show, only the duration. I'm using winxp pro SP3

megaman951: you get crash if you open xspf playlist via command-line?

I have similar problems:

1) double click on a previous saved foo.xspf file crashed vlc:
AppName: vlc.exe AppVer: 0.9.9.0 ModName: msvcrt.dll
ModVer: 7.0.2600.5512 Offset: 000383b4

2) start up vlc first, and then "Media" -> "Open File..." to open the same foo.xspf file and it starts to play. But the "Title" part is completely empty. Only the Duration part shown. As the result, you don't know which video file is playing and what's the next one going to be.

The same foo.xspf file has been played perfectly in 0.9.8a. I even created a new one directly under 0.9.9. Still no dice. BTW, in my case, "foo.xspf" contains Unicode; i.e., the playlist itself and its contents video files both content Chinese or Japanese characters in the filenames.

Thanks.

A little bit more information:

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The application, E:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe, generated an application error The error occurred on 04/12/2009 @ 21:04:05.390 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 77C483B4 (msvcrt!wcsxfrm)
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It is a Font Support Issue ?

> It is a Font Support Issue ?

I don't think so. Like I have mentioned, the same playlist worked perfectly in version 0.9.8a. Besides, when I created a new playlist (by firing up the vlc first and then dragged video files into playlist window), I can see all them. The problem occurs only after you save them to a playlist file and then reopen it.

Same problem with playlist. Nothing useful in the logger. Just click Show Playlist and get freeze.

I have had to create .m3u playlist files now as the problem with xspf is major, you can have only 1 entry before it crashes

joolz

> I have had to create .m3u playlist files now...

Creating .m3u works to some extend -- now I can see 'part' of the file name now. Unfortunately it does not solve my problem since most of my files are of the format "name of the song - artist". It manages to skip the part before the ' - ' and show me a list of repeated "artist" that looks like:

artist1
artist1
...
artist2
artist2
...

It's better than blanks but not much although at least I know who is singing. Thanks.

megaman951: you get crash if you open xspf playlist via command-line?

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vlc.exe c:\something\mylist.xspf

yeah it still crashes if I load the playlist from command line

Regarding that the saved playlist in .xspf format does not display title, I found the problem -- used to be that there is a field of "<title>name of the song</title>" that looks like:

<track>
<location>...</location>
<title> ... </title> <================
<creator> ... </creator>
<duration>114866</duration>
<extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
<vlc:id>0</vlc:id>
</extension>
</track>

But the new saved list looks like

<track>
<location>...</location>
<duration>210116</duration>
<extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
<vlc:id>0</vlc:id>
</extension>
</track>

Thus when you reopen the playlist, the Title field is all blank.

Same here. Consistently crashes when opening vlc from xspf playlist such as random_mixed.xspf.
OS: Windows XP MCE
1) Double-click playlist file
2) Attempt to show playlist (wanted to add some songs).
crash (see Win Event Application log entries in csv format below)
note: I filtered by all vlc.exe events and did have other crashes not related to playlist. Believe all the playlist
ones involved "msvcrt.dll"

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5/21/2009,12:08:50 PM,DrWatson,Information,None,4097,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"The application, C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe, generated an application error The error occurred on 05/21/2009 @ 12:08:50.812 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 77C483B4 (msvcrt!wcsxfrm)"
5/21/2009,12:08:47 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.2180, fault address 0x000383b4."
5/21/2009,12:06:29 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.2180, fault address 0x000383b4."
5/21/2009,12:06:18 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.2180, fault address 0x000383b4."
5/20/2009,10:43:45 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module libvlccore.dll, version 0.9.9.0, fault address 0x0007db10."
5/20/2009,10:40:42 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module libvlccore.dll, version 0.9.9.0, fault address 0x0007db10."
5/20/2009,10:35:58 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module libvlccore.dll, version 0.9.9.0, fault address 0x0007db10."
5/20/2009,10:34:59 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module libvlccore.dll, version 0.9.9.0, fault address 0x0007db10."
5/19/2009,6:49:13 AM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module libvlccore.dll, version 0.9.9.0, fault address 0x00074447."
5/18/2009,12:55:02 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.2180, fault address 0x000383b4."
5/18/2009,12:53:50 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.2180, fault address 0x000383b7."
5/18/2009,12:52:03 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.2180, fault address 0x000383b4."
5/18/2009,12:50:05 PM,Application Error,Error,None,1000,N/A,VIDRUNRXPS,"Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.9.9.0, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.2180, fault address 0x000383b7."
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Steps that DO NOT crash
1) Open vlc.exe from shortcut
2) Playlist >> Show Playlist
3) Drag playlist file to to Playlist dialog

Let me know if more information is needed.

Appears to be fixed in the 1.0.0 release candidate 1:

vlc-1.0.0-rc1-win32.exe

Could not duplicate.
Nice!

Appears to be fixed in the 1.0.0 release candidate 1:

vlc-1.0.0-rc1-win32.exe

Could not duplicate.
Nice!

Thanks for the report.