[Ffmpeg-devel] random crashes decoding MP3s

[Jacob Meuser]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:28:12PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Jacob Meuser <jakemsr at jakemsr.com> writes:
> 
> > hola,
> >
> > I'm seeing occasional random crashes decoding VBR MP3s to WAV, ie:
> >
> > $ ffmpeg file_vbr.mp3 file.wav
> >
> > this is from FFmpeg CVS as of about 9 hours ago on OpenBSD
> > -current.  I also see the crashes with FFmpeg CVS from 03/21/06.
> [...]
> > what seems most strange is that the crashes are random.  often
> > just running the process a second time works.  I'm decoding several
> > MP3 files.  ffmpeg crashes about 20% of the time.  the backtrace
> > looks very similar every time (ie, huffman_decode() is always #0).
> 
> This could be bad memory.  Do you have any other random crashes, like
> GCC segfaulting or so?  Run a memory checker like memtest86, and check
> your cabling.

hmmm.  I haven't seen anything else go wonky, but of course sh*t
happens when you least expect it (and can least afford it :().

I'll try memtest86 and report back in a while.

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