VLC hangs when opening playlist or directory

[Sebazzz]

VLC media player 1.0 rc crashes (hangs) when opening a directory or playlist directly, adding it to the playlist, or opening it in any other way. I also tried the latest nightly, same thing. In the nightly the following appears:

I also tried to remove my vlcrc and cache files, and then it works fine. But when I set my settings how I would like them, I can reproduce the bugs. Attached files are the vlcrc settings file, a file called 'crashdump' found in the same directory as vlcrc, and the screenshot above. I hope you fix the bug, because I use vlc as my primary music and video player

Using VLC Media Player 1.0 on Windows XP with full administrator rights.

Attachments:
vlcrc (72 KB)

crashdump (2 KB)

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

What options did you change?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

That looks like a bug, but with no clear instructions how to reproduce it, neither a stack trace, it's impossible to reproduce and fix.

[Sebazzz]

Okay, I did some testing. It seems to happen when turning the MSN Now-Playing option on in Interface -> Controlling interfaces (?, I'm using the dutch version of VLC)

I'm trying to get a stacktrace from VLC Nightly using Visual Studio.

edit: Got a call stack

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> msvcrt.dll!77c05b61() [Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for msvcrt.dll] msvcrt.dll!77c09f8e() msvcrt.dll!77bef2c1() libmsn_plugin.dll!707c175e() libvlccore.dll!6a5c6e3e() libvlccore.dll!6a5c7b2b() libvlccore.dll!6a5616b6() libvlccore.dll!6a5c15cf() libvlccore.dll!6a57a1ef() libvlccore.dll!6a57c82b() libvlccore.dll!6a581a35() msvcrt.dll!77bfc2de() libvlccore.dll!6a582670() libvlccore.dll!6a5b91d4() libvlccore.dll!6a5b9a07() msvcrt.dll!77c0a3b0() kernel32.dll!7c7db729()

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Sorry, I cannot find any obvious cause for the given assertion, and your backtrace is totally illegible.

[Sebazzz]

What I forgot to mention, VLC must be restarted after turning the MSN Now-playing option on. After you restarted VLC try to open a XPSF or a directory in VLC player. It should (well, should'nt ) stop responding. The nightly will break when attached to in Visual Studio.