Re: xine crashes on mp4's with AC3 passthrough enabled

Christophe Thommeret <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:22:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 12/09/2012 18:19, Mark Knecht a =E9crit :
> Hi,
>     I've been using xine for years. It's worked so well for at least
> 5-6 years that I've cannot remember having a problem with it. However
> recently I started using Handbrake to rip my old DVD collection
> because my new TV can play mp4's off of a USB hard drive. This has
> worked well until I started looking at different options in Handbrake,
> one being the inclusion of an AC3 passthrough audio layer in the mp4.
> My TV doesn't have any problem with that being in the mp4 file - as
> best I can tell it doesn't use it in any way - but xine crashes
> immediately when starting to play any file where I've included the AC3
> passthrough.
>
>     Is this a known issue with xine? A problem with Handbrake's implement=
ation?
>
>     If there's some debug or log file info I could post to help let me
> know. If someone needs an mp4 file from Handbrake I could probably
> provide that also.
>

Xine bug.
AFAIK, this is the case with any mp4 embedding A52, quicktime demuxer =

crashes ( i guess this demuxer does not expect A52, but it should not =

crash, at least :)

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Christophe Thommeret


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