mythpreviewgen crash

[dag@…]

mythpreviewgen crashes for me in master.

The installation is one with a very long history of upgrades and it might well be a setting that is wrong. Bet there should still not be a crash :-)

Running under gdb gave me the crash line: #0 0x00007ffff4e5f6bd in AvFormatDecoder::H264PreProcessPkt(AVStream*, AVPacket*) (this=0x6eda90, stream=0x716e40, pkt=0x7fffa40037e0) at avformatdecoder.cpp:3465

The line is: if ((AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO == enc->codec_type) &&

(kCodec_H264 == video_codec_id) && (enc->codec) && (enc->thread_count>1))

And sure enough enc returned from previous line is NULL. Perhaps a check and an error message?

Tell me what logs etc. you might need to sort this out!

[dag@…]

A bit more info:

This situation seems to appear when there is a DTV stream for AV_CODEC_ID_DVB_TELETEXT and I did not have that enabled in the compilation of the system.

ATM compiling with --enable-libzvbi

But again: Surely there shouldn't be a crash?

[Peter Bennett]

I think this is the same problem as your other ticket #13218. Is it the same file giving the problem?

[dag@…]

That file was one of them and I also thought so first, but this was obviously on my selfcompiled backend and I had more possibilites of debugging. After the recompile with -libvzbi and a refreshed pull request it now seems to work though.

Still think there should be a test for null in the retrival of the decoder though :-)

[dag@…]

Addition to previous note:

Actually just remembered that after the recompile with -libvzbi there wasn't a crash any more, but there wasn't any preview rendered either. The rendering process went into a loop and gave me similar messages as my Minimyth2 frond did.

It was finally checking out fixes/29 and installing that which solved theis problem.

[Peter Bennett <pbennett@…>]

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