[Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-20 Thread Mark Stevans
When playing unreliable H264 streams with FFPlay, I seem to get core-dumps randomly every few hours. The exact location is usually the second instruction of "pred8x8_top_dc_8_mmxext" in "h264_intrapred.asm", where it dereferences "dest_cr" after subtracting "uvlinesize" from it, as called from

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-20 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Mark Stevans writes: > When playing unreliable H264 streams with FFPlay, I > seem to get core-dumps randomly every few hours. This sounds important, please provide the necessary information as explained on http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html A sample would be useful (the size limitation menti

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Carl Eugen Hoyos writes: > Mark Stevans ...> writes: > > > When playing unreliable H264 streams with FFPlay, I > > seem to get core-dumps randomly every few hours. > > This sounds important, please provide the necessary > information as explained on > http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html I ap

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Stevans
You explained -- just not strongly enough to make me understand. It takes hours of testing to generate a stack trace, but I wrote down the most import part -- the last two frames. And it's very difficult to get a clip for reproduction, as this is a live stream running for hours. To be honest

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Mark Stevans writes: > It takes hours of testing to generate a stack trace I am not sure I understand: The additional effort should be far below five minutes, could you elaborate? > And it's very difficult to get a clip for reproduction, > as this is a live stream running for hours. rtmpdum

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Stevans
On 6/21/2013 1:36 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: Mark Stevans writes: It takes hours of testing to generate a stack trace I am not sure I understand: The additional effort should be far below five minutes, could you elaborate? Ah, I wasn't clear yet again: when I said "core-dump", I don't mea

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Mark Stevans writes: > when I said "core-dump", I don't mean an actual > core-dump on disk. I'm running under Windows 7 > here, debugging with WinDbg gdb works fine on Windows (7), it would also allow to produce a useful backtrace (and disassembly and register content) for a recorded st

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Mark Stevans writes: > Frankly, I don't understand how patches could be > ignored on TRAC, yet observed in "ffmpeg-devel". I was just describing what experience tells me. > But I will send my patch there It appears that I was unclear again, sorry about that! Bug reports are not welcome on ffm

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 6/21/13, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Mark Stevans writes: > >> Frankly, I don't understand how patches could be >> ignored on TRAC, yet observed in "ffmpeg-devel". > > I was just describing what experience tells me. > >> But I will send my patch there > > It appears that I was unclear again, sor

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Paul B Mahol writes: > Are you enjoying yourself? You mean compared to you when you (intentionally!) commit other people's patches? Carl Eugen ___ Libav-user mailing list Libav-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Stevans
On 6/21/2013 2:39 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: Mark Stevans writes: when I said "core-dump", I don't mean an actual core-dump on disk. I'm running under Windows 7 here, debugging with WinDbg gdb works fine on Windows (7), it would also allow to produce a useful backtrace (and disassembly

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Mark Stevans writes: > > gdb works fine on Windows (7) > > I spent days trying to debug earlier bugs with > Windows GDB, but couldn't get decent stack > traces -- I tried every possible debugging > flag and symbol format to no avail. That surprises me: I am regularly using gdb to debug on Wi

Re: [Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

2013-06-21 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 6/21/13, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Paul B Mahol writes: > >> Are you enjoying yourself? > > You mean compared to you when you (intentionally!) > commit other people's patches? What other people's patches? ___ Libav-user mailing list Libav-user@ffmpe