Bug 64693 - Xine-ui 0.99.2 release is very buggy.
Bug#: 64693 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: 2004.2 Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: critical Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: media-video@gentoo.org Reported By: jurek@gentoo.org
Component: Applications
URL: 
Summary: Xine-ui 0.99.2 release is very buggy.
Keywords:  Bug, InCVS
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2004-09-19 15:39 0000
Description:   Opened: 2004-09-19 15:39 0000 
Here is a short e-mail conversation I've made with Daniel Caujolle-Bert:

From me:

[cut]
Almost each time I want to open a media file, xine
either ignores that fact or tells me that the MRL is incorrect. It also
~ recieves SIGSEGV occasionally:

xine: found demuxer plugin: Elementary MPEG stream demux plugin
av_offset=0 pts
spu_offset=0 pts
gui_xine_open_and_play():
~        mrl: '/mnt/public/Teledyski/Rammstein - Mein Teil.mpeg',
~        sub 'NONE',
~        start_pos 0, start_time 0, av_offset 0, spu_offset 0.
xine: found input plugin  : wtyczka wejścia pliku
xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP.

I also find out that xine messes up the first part of MRL very often
(ie. changes '/mnt' in /mnt/public/Teledyski/Rammstein - Amerika.avi to
rubbish, like '/?

------- Comment #1 From Jurek Bartuszek 2004-09-19 15:39:36 0000 ------- 
Here is a short e-mail conversation I've made with Daniel Caujolle-Bert:

From me:

[cut]
Almost each time I want to open a media file, xine
either ignores that fact or tells me that the MRL is incorrect. It also
~ recieves SIGSEGV occasionally:

xine: found demuxer plugin: Elementary MPEG stream demux plugin
av_offset=0 pts
spu_offset=0 pts
gui_xine_open_and_play():
~        mrl: '/mnt/public/Teledyski/Rammstein - Mein Teil.mpeg',
~        sub 'NONE',
~        start_pos 0, start_time 0, av_offset 0, spu_offset 0.
xine: found input plugin  : wtyczka wejścia pliku
xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP.

I also find out that xine messes up the first part of MRL very often
(ie. changes '/mnt' in /mnt/public/Teledyski/Rammstein - Amerika.avi to
rubbish, like '/?ß').
[cut]

Response:

[CUT]
 Yep, it's a well known memory corruption bug. I suggest you to try CVS 
version of xine-ui.
[CUT]


Yet no other workaround was proposed than trying the CVS version of xine-ui. I think that in that case it would be reasonable to either remove the 0.99.2 version from portage, hard-mask it or replace with a cvs version.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Xine-ui 0.99.2 recieves segfaults, crashes, etc.


Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1,
2.6.8-gentoo-r3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa arts audiofile autofs avi berkdb bidi
bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups devfs dga divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr
encode escreen esd fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gpm
gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg kadu-modules kadu-voice kde libg++ libwww
linguas_pl lirc mad md5sum mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline
ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype
type1 usb videos vim-with-x wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib"

------- Comment #2 From Anders Rune Jensen (RETIRED) 2004-09-26 10:26:10 0000 ------- 
I looked over the xine-ui changes since the last release and the only related
change I could find was the following:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-ui/src/xitk/actions.c?r1=1.246&r2=1.247&sortby=date&diff_format=u

Could you try xine-ui with the patch applied and see if it fixes the problem?

Thank you.

------- Comment #3 From Jurek Bartuszek 2004-09-26 13:53:53 0000 ------- 
Well, the MRL problem seems to be gone now. The patch howerver needs a little
lifting:

hell xine-ui-0.99.2 # patch -p2 < patch.diff
patching file src/xitk/actions.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 17.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 1231 (offset -7 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 1271 (offset -7 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 1289 (offset -7 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 1342 (offset -7 lines).
1 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/xitk/actions.c.rej

hell xine-ui-0.99.2 # cat src/xitk/actions.c.rej
***************
*** 17,23 ****
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA
*
-  * $Id: actions.c,v 1.246 2004/07/23 13:36:14 f1rmb Exp $
*
* implementation of all the various actions for the gui (play, stop, open,
pause
...)
*
--- 17,23 ----
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA
*
+  * $Id: actions.c,v 1.247 2004/08/24 19:18:29 f1rmb Exp $
*
* implementation of all the various actions for the gui (play, stop, open,
pause
...)
*

Anyway, there are still two major bugs that occur:

1. I've opened a few mpg/avi files in a row using GUI (Open -> File). It seemed
to work fine. Then I've opened Rammstein - Mein Teil.mpg. From now on any time
I want to open anything, xine simply ignores it... neither doesn't give any
output nor plays the file. When I click stop and then try to open a movie, xine
usually crashes:

gui_xine_open_and_play():
        mrl: '/mnt/public/Teledyski/Linkin Park - Numb - Live on Kimmel.mpg',
        sub 'NONE',
        start_pos 0, start_time 0, av_offset 0, spu_offset 0.
xine: found input plugin  : wtyczka wej&#347;cia pliku
xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP.
Przerwane

I don't know if the problem is in the way that the clip was encoded or
something... I just know that works fine with xine-0.99.1 ;-)

2. xiTK recieves SIGSEGV _very_ randomly and _very_ not rarely :(

Regards,

Koxta

------- Comment #4 From Chris White (RETIRED) 2004-10-22 20:50:55 0000 ------- 
CVS snapshot now in portage.  Give it awhile to propigate not only the ebuild,
but also the snapshot tarball as well.  Thanks for posting, it does indeed seem
much more stable.

------- Comment #5 From Jurek Bartuszek 2004-10-23 16:06:21 0000 ------- 
Yeah, the SIGSEGv problem is finally gone... however, there is one thing that
still bugs me... When I do Open -> File, the file is being added to the
queue... It should be played instantly instead. Is there any option that
changes this awful behaviour? Or is it just a ,,feature''?