[DVDnav-discuss] Possible libdvdnav crash

[Roger Pack]

On 3/19/14, Jan Janssen <medhefgo at web.de> wrote:
> Erik Hovland <erik at ...> writes:
>
>>
>> Do you happen to have any extra output from the run? I put a couple of
>> error messages in there to try to figure out why set_PGCN() is
>> crapping out.
>>
>> >> What do these two patches do? It may actually be the right thing to do
>> >> in this instance, so I am curious what the error messaging patch says
>> >> without using the return instead of assert patch.
>> >
>> >     assertion=assertion <at> entry=0x7ffff3087b9b "(signed)*pos != -1",
>> > file=file <at> entry=0x7ffff3087b8b "src/searching.c", line=line <at>
> entry=567,
>> >     function=function <at> entry=0x7ffff3087e50
>> > <__PRETTY_FUNCTION__.5455>
>> > "dvdnav_get_position") at assert.c:92
>> > #3  0x00007ffff7424552 in __GI___assert_fail
>> > (assertion=assertion <at> entry=0x7ffff3087b9b "(signed)*pos != -1",
>> > file=file <at> entry=0x7ffff3087b8b "src/searching.c",
>> >     line=line <at> entry=567, function=function <at>
>> > entry=0x7ffff3087e50
>> > <__PRETTY_FUNCTION__.5455> "dvdnav_get_position") at assert.c:101
>> > #4  0x00007ffff307f7ee in dvdnav_get_position (this=0x7fffc4001110,
>> >
>> > If I comment out the assertion on line 567, vlc starts playing the
>> > actual
>> > film, skipping the menu.
>>
>> The assert on line 567 in searching.c looks a lot more like an assert
>> should. How about the attached patch? What does it do? It removes the
>> assert, but it also returns an error message if no position is found.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> E
>>
>
> Vlc starts skips the menu and starts playing the film with all 3 patches
> applied,
> while mplayer manages to show me the menu even without the patches.

how are you running mplayer?