VLC 1.14 Intermittent crash on RMVB

[WolfBrother]

I have Windows 7 Home Premium. About one third to one half of the time when I play an RMVB file, and fast forward, rewind or jump around on the time, it will crash. I get a windows error that the player has stopped working.

Can anyone help?

WolfBrother

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Can you try Nightly Build of VLC ?

[yotapong]

Same here, since 1.1.x i cannot rewind or fast forward with real media files, => vlc has stopped working. Older versions e.g.1.0.5 are working fine. OS is Win7 x64. Also tried some nightly builds, same problem.

[icecube]

I am having problems with rmvb files as well with the 1.1.x versions, I am running Windows 7 64bit. VLC crashes whenever I try to fast forward, it even crashes when I close the video.

I had an older version 1.0.3 and reinstalled it and it is working fine.

[expdecay]

Possibly off-topic. But this applies to Mac OS X as well.

Versions 1.1.x onwards seem to exhibit this problem, including the most recent 1.1.8 (tested on 64-bit version). Had to downgrade back to 1.0.5 to resolve the problem

Problem arose during the following - Fast forwarding, Seeking - for RMVB files.

[DoubleM]

I´m getting those errors since several months ago too

I mainly use the VLC to watch RMVB files and its boring to get those errors all the time. On 90% of the time i rewind or fastfoward, it crashes. Sometimes it takes minutes until i can see a video.

I´ve reported many times the errors but no result.

It happens at least on Windows XP, 7 and several PC´s

Please, correct this bug. On older versions, everything was fine

[VLC_help]

Is there some sample file you could share to us?

[1oclock]

Yeh i'm having the same problems for vlc with rmvb files as well, and this doesn't just happen to a few rmvb files but almost all of them. So this past yr i just restrained myself from forwarding or rewinding... pain in the butt yeh...

I've tried to play the same files on vlc on xp computers, forwarding, skipping rewinding have no problems whatsoever, it just seems to happen on windows 7 only.

It'd be great if this could be resolved!

[VLC_help]

I've tried to play the same files on vlc on xp computers, forwarding, skipping rewinding have no problems whatsoever, it just seems to happen on windows 7 only.

That sounds a bit strange since the RM demuxing shouldn't have any OS dependent codepaths.

[1oclock]

yeh i dont know, too technical for me. but it is true the same file getting played on different OS has different vlc behaviors.

[VLC_help]

Does it matter if you do forward via hotkeys only?

[1oclock]

The same error appears no matter if i used the hotkeys, or drag the mouse... =\

[VLC_help]

You know how to use GDB?

[1oclock]

No sry, haven't heard of it

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

The crash is present and verified.

[1oclock]

Just curious. Is this fixed in 1.1.9?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I don't think so.

[1oclock]

Will it hopefully be fixed?

[DoubleM]

The crash is still present and really annoying..

When can we expect an fix?

[VLC_help]

When can we expect an fix?

AFAIK no timetable is set.

[SilverIsle]

It gives me hope each time I see a VLC update, but I'm always left disappointed.

Truly miss the older 1.0.x versions.

[VLC_help]

You can install older version if you want to use them
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/

[1oclock]

so older versions dont have this problem? if so, exactly what versions work?

[VLC_help]

RMVB playback with VLC isn't perfect. VLC 1.2.0 builds might be a bit better.

[matiasv]

I gave Full Control to all computer users to folder \Program Files\VideoLAN and it works.