[xine-devel] xine_open() freezes w/OGG files

[Brian J. T. <bj...@co...>]

hi all,

i noticed some peculiar behavior last night; i haven't had a chance to
rule out my own code yet, but i thought i'd touch base.

xfmedia has a scrollable playlist (a la xmms), and it loads file info on
demand as you scroll down the list (using a separate stream instance
created with a separate "none" audio and video driver pair).

basic procedure:

xine_open()
xine_get_meta_info() /* however many times for different fields */
xine_get_pos_length()
xine_close()

i've verified with some printf()s that, after opening and closing around
110-125 ogg vorbis files, it gets locked up somewhere in xine_open().
it's reproducible on my setup using xine-lib-1rc7.

note that if i scroll to somewhere else in the list, to a section with all
MP3 files, i can scroll through hundreds of them without a problem.  but
if i go back to the ogg files, after a little over a hundred of them,
it locks up.  it doesn't appear to be any particular ogg vorbis file; i've
tried starting at different places in the list, and the amount of tracks
that scroll by before a freeze is about the same.  this is all happening
inside the main thread (that is, the same one where i call functions on the
"main" xine stream), so it shouldn't be a locking issue.

are there any gotchas with this kind of setup?  as i said, i'm not doing any
locking, but the "main" stream instance has an X event loop thread running,
a swell as a xine_event_queue_t event listener thread.  i have a separate
Display* for all the xine work.  if there's any other info i can provide
that would be of help, please let me know.

thanks,
brian