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 > >