id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc mlocked 10133 Memory corruption in mythpreviewgen if mpg file contains errors Lawrence Rust danielk "I have noticed several segfaults and aborts logged by mythbackend when running mythpreviewgen. It appears that problems occur if the recording contains errors in the transport stream due to reception problems. I can reliably reproduce the problem with this recording [http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/7941_20111029115050.mpg] (30MB) when invoked as: mythpreviewgen -v most --infile 7941_20111029115050.mpg Backtrace attached. NB there's a bug in mythpreviewgen/main.cpp that needs this patch to specify a filename: {{{ --- a/mythtv/programs/mythpreviewgen/main.cpp +++ b/mythtv/programs/mythpreviewgen/main.cpp @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ int preview_helper(const QString &_chanid, const QString &star uint chanid = _chanid.toUInt(); QDateTime recstartts = myth_dt_from_string(starttime); - if (!chanid || !recstartts.isValid()) + if (!QFileInfo(infile).isReadable() && (!chanid || !recstartts.isValid())) ProgramInfo::ExtractKeyFromPathname(infile, chanid, recstartts); ProgramInfo *pginfo = NULL; }}} " Bug Report - Crash closed minor 0.25 MythTV - Mythpreviewgen 0.24.1 medium Unverified Memory corruption 0