SMPlayer 21.8.0.9999 + yt-dlp crashes on Win32
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#992 SMPlayer 21.8.0.9999 + yt-dlp crashes on Win32
It runs very smooth for a long time, but eventually crashes Windows 7 (32-bit) and causes a system restart after about 20 to 60 minutes in to playing a video. Have not been able to catch the system error since the restart occurs very quickly after the system crash. The yt-dlp network setting definitely cleared up the other issue with unneeded buffering (video stopping), but now this is happening and never happened with the previous version.
More info would be needed to try to figure out what the problem could be.
Doesn't it happen with version 21.8.0?
Does it happen if you use youtube-dl instead of yt-dlp?
What video output (preferences -> general -> video) are you using? Does it happen if you use another one?
Update: It appears to not be an issue with SMPlayer! It just coincidentally started to happen when switching SMPlayer over to using yt-dlp. Never happened when running youtube-dl and that's why at first I thought it was yt-dlp causing the issue. I now suspect the crashing was due to Chrome running in the background and it launching the included SWReporter service. I have since disabled that and no more crashes since then!