Re: [Mlt-devel] Bug#651604: Bug#651604: libmlt4: makes openshot segfault

[Samuel M. <sm...@gm...>]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Dan Dennedy <da...@de...> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Patrick Matthäi <pma...@de...>
> wrote:
> > Hey Dan,
> >
> > I am quick forwarding this bug (do not have the time to investigate
> > these days and AFAIK you are preparing the next release).
>
> Yes, of course, I always prepare the releases, but I was not preparing
> something real soon. Perhaps I can after I explore something related
> to seek and sync.
>
> > Samuel has the problem, that mlt crashs with a generated sequence of
> > openshot, while playing the video itself works.
> >
> > You can find the full bug {report,discussion} here:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651604
> >
> > And here is his sequence:
> >
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=30;filename=sequence.mlt;att=2;bug=651604
> >
>
> OK, the crashing is fixed in mlt git commit 7d076b. However, I should
> add that something went wrong with the way the XML is being generated.
> In the case of this transition causing the crash, the transition name
> has a bunch of tabs after it. I can look at ignoring white space when
> parsing, but it may need to be context sensitive and requires further
> analysis.
>

Thanks for investigating this! For information, I submitted this to
upstream openshot too:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/902952

I hope that this will get fixed soon in Debian so that I can start editing
my videos again :)

Cheers,

Samuel.