[haiku-development] Re: building mediaplayer

  • From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:33:29 +1000

On 24 June 2010 19:48, sami vuokila <varjosanomat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> updated bug #6219
>
> a bit of experimenting reveals that its the audio that kills mediaserver.
> the test file has an aac audiotrack that does not play nice when i open many 
> videos.
>
> I tested with the same clip without any audio, mediaplayer was churning out 
> 12 vids happily and let me open many more and started dopping frames. no 
> crash, no flames.
>
> Opening the original clip with its aac track a few times blocked mediaplayer 
> and eventually crashed media server etc.
>
>
> if somebody much cleverer than me could take a look at the aac codec / 
> related thingy, would be great.
>
> i will still poke around mediaplayer. its no good for it to crash when there 
> is a coded problem. I'm not quite clear how a codec can crash mediaserver , 
> hope to learn more.

Are you able to post a link to the file?

It is not necessarily the aac audio track but whenever I get a crash
it is usually the audio out subtask.

-- 
Cheers
David

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