Re: Xine exiting without a good-bye (was Re: Sound disappearing from VLC after kernel update)

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Patrick Connolly
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Somewhere about Thu, 13-Oct-2011 at 07:23PM +1300 (give or take), Glenn Enright wrote:
>
> |> I recently became aware that xine backend of the kde sound system did
> |> not play nice in the stock ubuntu 10.04 versions (ie a known bug). And
> |> xine would randomly exit during sound play. Thankfully I was able to
> |> grab the backports version which worked much better.
>
> My problems seem to coincide with an upgrade, so it could well be the
> same thing going on.  "Random" is the operative word.  I tried again
> and got a very different sequence, but this at the top was still the
> same.
>
>
> ......
> libdvdread: Found 5 VTS's
> libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
> *** buffer overflow detected ***: xine terminated
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x45)[0x4f7a9d95]
> /lib/libc.so.6[0x4f7a7d87]
> /lib/libc.so.6(__strncpy_chk+0x163)[0x4f7a72b3]
> /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_decode_spucc.so(+0x271f)[0x7f471f]
> /usr/lib/libxine.so.1[0x430d2af8]
> /usr/lib/libxine.so.1(_x_get_spu_decoder+0x105)[0x430d7159]
> /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_decode_mpeg2.so(+0x1e92)[0x6d7e92]
> /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.29/xineplug_decode_mpeg2.so(+0x181f2)[0x6ee1f2]
> /usr/lib/libxine.so.1[0x430d8aaf]
> /lib/libpthread.so.0[0x4f87ea2e]
> /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e)[0x4f79134e]
>  ======= Memory map: ========
> .......
>
>
> It seems that it's to do with codecs.  Some DVDs play fine; others
> fall over always at the same place.  That would indicate that VLC is
> quite independent of those codecs.  From what I can work out, it is a
> recognised Xine bug but I can't find anything to do with anyone
> working out a way around it.
>
>
> Has anyone any better information?
>

I believe that VLC ships its own internal version of codecs, whereas
xine uses its own versions. On my ubuntu system neither seem to be
linked to the usual ffmpeg libraries.

Have you tried mplayer or xbmc?

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