Re: Jessie/amd64 VLC crashes on WMV playback

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Author: Christian Marillat
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: Jessie/amd64 VLC crashes on WMV playback
Martin Gallant <martyg@???> writes:

> For the last couple of weeks, I have lost the ability to play WMV files in VLC.
>
> I get the following error when starting the player from the console:
>
> $vlc file.wmv
> VLC media player 2.1.5 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5)
> [0xf24118] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
> 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
> [wmv3 @ 0x7fa04cc21d20] Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0
> Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
> Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
> *** Error in `vlc': free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007fa04cc26cd8 ***
> Aborted


Certainly a vlc bug :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libv4l/+bug/1313309

If someone see a patch...

Christian