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Posted: **28 Mar 2006 20:15**

Is anyone able to tell me what changed on the nightlies between 17 and 18 February 2006?

I'm using Windows XP SP1

Up to Feb 18 everything was fine, but if i try to launch any of the nightlies from Feb 20 onwards with -I skins2 VLC crashes instantly. This is the error log:

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skins2 debug: Unable to open the font C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\vlc\skins\fonts\FreeSans.ttf
skins2 debug: Loading font c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\skins\fonts\FreeSans.ttf
main warning: drive letter C: found in source
main debug: creating access '' path='C:\lp\cd_crash_0.2\background.png'
main debug: looking for access2 module: 5 candidates
vcd debug: trying .cue file: C:\lp\cd_crash_0.2\background.cue
access_file debug: opening file `C:\lp\cd_crash_0.2\background.png'
main debug: using access2 module "access_file"
main debug: pre buffering
main debug: received first data for our buffer
main debug: prebuffering done 65534 bytes in 0s - 60546 kbytes/s

i've no idea why it's trying to open FreeSans.ttf because this font isn't being used for the skin I loaded - the location mentioned doesn't exist so i assume it's some sort of temporary directory...?

I get the same errors with any skin i load, but if i switch back to a nightly from Feb 18 or before everything works.

This is on a VIA EPIA M6000 C3 system with WinXP SP1. If i try the latest builds on my Athlon XP 1900+ system with WinXP SP2 everything works. I'm downloading SP2 for the EPIA now to see if that fixes it.

I know the obvious answer is to use the athlon, but i'm supposed to be presenting this product tomorrow and it has to use small hardware. I need the latest build of VLC because it has new skins features that i'm using.

thanks hugely in advance,

mark.

Posted: **28 Mar 2006 20:46**

The FreeSans.ttf font is used for the tooltips, for all the skins. For this reason it is distributed with VLC, and the skins engine finds it in a VLC directory. You can safely ignore this debug message.

I will have a look at the commits to see if something rings a bell...

Posted: **28 Mar 2006 21:01**

Could you try reverting revisions 14364 and 14367 (both impacting src/misc/image.c)? This code might have some influence on the skins.

Apart from that, I don't see anything potentially wrong.

Posted: **28 Mar 2006 21:09**

the last working nightly (2006-02-18) is based on SVN revision 14358M, i experience problems with anything after that. The nightly from 2006-02-20 is based on SVN revision 14420. How can i get 14364 or 14367?

there's no nightly build for 2006-02-19 btw.

mark.

Posted: **28 Mar 2006 21:23**

I'm afraid you will have to build VLC yourself...
See http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/vlc/INSTALL.win32 for how to do it.

Posted: **29 Mar 2006 09:48**

thank ipkiss. i'll give it a try.

does anyone else have a Windows EPIA system that could try the latest nightlies?

thanks,

mark.

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