[FFmpeg-devel] AAC decoder corrups memory?

[Vladimir Pantelic]

Pavel Pavlov wrote:
>>  On 17 March 2010 10:35, Pavel Pavlov<pavel at summit-tech.ca>  wrote:
>>  >  I didn't try to play clips with aac sound for a while and wanted to
>>  try some clips from IPone (that contain aac sound) and I'm constantly
>>  getting crashes. These crashes happen because of memory corruption and
>>  malloc returns 0 (I see debug messages about heap corruption). All that
>>  happens before even it starts to play anything, sometimes even before
>>  av_find_stream_info returns. I tried to debug, and I see that
>>  av_find_stream_info internally opens aac decoder. I tried to play
>>  different files, no problem, but If I play files with aac it always
>>  crashes. I disable aac decoder and recompiled ffmpeg and now it doesn't
>>  crash.
>>  >  Simply dropping a file with aac sound to ffplay crashes it before it
>>  even starts playing. Anyone has the same behavior? Seems that it was
>>  affected by some recent changes, the same movies that I'm trying to
>>  play used to play fine before
>>
>>  http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html
>>
>>  And please provide a sample with which you can reproduce the issue.
>>
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> Considering that it fails before even trying to read packets I guess anything that contains aac will have the same effect.

a gdb backtrace at least?