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