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moviefan
20th December 2005, 14:02
I have encoded a video clip with x264, but whenever I try to play it on VideoLAN, the player crashes. I have also installed ffdshow and using windows media player or other players, it works. Why does VideoLAN crash?
Sirber
20th December 2005, 14:15
Do you have the latest VLC?
Sharktooth
20th December 2005, 15:10
Try the latest nightly build: http://nightlies.videolan.org/
it's in development stage... it's alpha/beta software.
moviefan
20th December 2005, 22:48
I have installed the very latest version of VLC (0.85), but again the player crashes. My clip was encoded with x264 version 365 which is not the latest release. The weird thing is that playing it in other media players which use ffdshow nothing crashes, but the problem is that after a few seconds the audio track gets delayed. I guess that occurs because decoding x264 takes a lot of resources.
My system: P4 2,66 GHz, 512 MB RAM, onboard shared memory graphics card
Sharktooth
21st December 2005, 04:24
Could you post that clip or part of it?
FFWD
21st December 2005, 11:36
Client crashes when playing back H.264/AVC files (http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=45565#45565)

Ticket #432 H264 decoding issues (http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/432)
Sharktooth
21st December 2005, 16:16
Client crashes when playing back H.264/AVC files (http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=45565#45565)

Ticket #432 H264 decoding issues (http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/432)
Confirmed. it's a VLC problem.
bond
21st December 2005, 21:23
actually there are two different things here:

1) the ticket talks about avc in .mpg and not avc in .mp4

2) FFWD: your empire.mp4 clip is not a valid .mp4 file and therefore its no surprise vlc crashes on it. there has been a discussion about this file here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=103717)
Sharktooth
21st December 2005, 21:26
The problem in VLC is it can't still handle corrupted files and crashes almost with any problems...
bond
21st December 2005, 21:40
well that depends on the point of view

imho there is no point in handling wrong files. the producer tools producing those files should be fixed, not the player
Sharktooth
21st December 2005, 21:43
a good software should never crash...
Revgen
22nd December 2005, 05:17
a good software should never crash...

I never thought I'd hear this from a software programmer! :eek: