How to crash vlc

[Whistle]

I am able to crash VLC and repeat the process. It might be a bug
I accepted to send the crash report but I am posting the way to reproduce the bug

My Environnement: XP SP3
VLC: 1.1.0

Reproduction of the bug:

• VideoLan is not running
  I double click in a video file
  When VLC opens with the splash screen
  I press the spacebar (you have to be fast)
  VLC close

I was able to do it with .wmv, .mkv or .avi files

[VLC_help]

Have you changed default action for spacebar?

[Whistle]

Nop. (I checked just to make sure it was the play/pause action)

[VLC_help]

Thanks. Ticket opened
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3927

[solazy]

I second that.
Thanks Vlc_help for opening a ticket, because it does same for me after following Whistle's instructions to reproduct the bug with any avi file : it crashes too (I'm also on XP)

Just an idea...could it be possible this happens only on "old" PC's (mine is P4) ?
I remember we had this kind of problems in programs using redirected keys ("on key Spacebar...") : problems happened (sometimes) on slow PC's but never on recent one's.
On a slow PC, the user was able to quickly press the key before it was redirected in the program. But when he did same on a recent PC, all worked fine because the redirection was already in effect and it was impossible to trick the program.

[VLC_help]

Old PC doesn't mean anything. Problem prolly is in program logic where pause state shouldn't be send during file opening.

[Whistle]

I am happy to have helped the vlc team