0.9.9a reproducible crash on recursive XSPF playlists

[vinc17]

With VLC 0.9.9a on my Mac OS X 10.4.11 PowerPC machine (Power Mac G5 dual), I get a reproducible crash on any recursive XSPF playlist. This is a regression: I had no such problems with VLC 0.9.8a. To reproduce the crash, create a file test.xspf of the form:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <playlist xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" version="1"> <trackList> <track> <location>file:///Users/vinc17/file1.xspf</location> </track> <track> <location>file:///Users/vinc17/file2.xspf</location> </track> </trackList> </playlist>

• Start VLC.
• Click on Play.
• Open the test.xspf file (and click OK).

After a few seconds, VLC crashes. This is 100% reproducible.

[vinc17]

I forgot to say that the files file1.xspf and file2.xspf do not even need to exist.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Try with 1.0 and fill a bug.

[vinc17]

Try with 1.0 and fill a bug.

Where can I find 1.0? The VideoLAN website mentions 0.9.9a only! And there are no nightly builds for my machine (Mac OS X / PowerPC).

[ajmas]

You will need a nightly at this point: http://nightlies.videolan.org

There should also be a release candidate (RC) available soon. J-B can you point to the page where the RC will be available from?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc-1.0.0-rc1/win32/

[vinc17]

You will need a nightly at this point: http://nightlies.videolan.org

As I've said, I can't find any nightly there (http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx/?C=M;O=D):

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Icon Name Last modified Size Description[DIR] Parent Directory - [DIR] backup/ 01-May-2009 18:49 - [TXT] HEADER.html 15-Feb-2009 21:02 829

ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc-1.0.0-rc1/win32/

My machine is a Mac OS X platform. This won't work!

[ajmas]

Download the file labelled 'latest' from: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx/?C=M;O=D , add the .zip extension and then extract it.

[vinc17]

Download the file labelled 'latest' from: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx/?C=M;O=D

I don't see a file 'latest' at this URL. See what I obtain with Firefox:

Note: the backup directory is empty.

[derHindemith]

I have this problem as well, and as far as I understand it a) the proper link is: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/ and b) since version 1.0 is dropping osx 10.4 support, that's not really a viable solution, since, at least the two posters here are not using 10.5

[vinc17]

This is not the proper link either: I have a PowerPC machine, not an x86 one.

It isn't a good idea to drop 10.4 support, and this is even the first software I know that drops 10.4 support. I won't upgrade to 10.5 because first I have hardware not supported by Leopard, and also because my machine is already 4 years old and I don't want to spend much money on it.

[nikola23]

Actually, it's not the first to drop support for 10.4. For instance Adium, http://adium.im/blog/2009/05/14-beta-134-release/ It isn't their fault that apple makes programming for OSX more difficult than it should be.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Apple, with llvm, make it impossible to use on OSX.4