[haiku-development] Re: building mediaplayer

  • From: sami vuokila <varjosanomat@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:04:20 +0900

i'll send a link to the file tomorrow when im at the house again

cheers
sami

On 6/24/10, David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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