[mythtv-users] DVD Playback crashing in 0.24-fixes -- workaround

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Lord <mythtv at rtr.ca> wrote:
>
> The crashes happen with/without VDPAU, and there have been many tickets
> (from others) reporting the issue, but no resolution.
>
> I suspect a race between MythDVDPlayer::GetBookmark() and other parts of the player.
> Saving bookmarks doesn't seem to cause trouble, just retrieving the first one
> on resume of playback.  This leads to internal heap corruption in libc++,
> and then subsequent crashes in unrelated sections of code.
>
> The code there does seem simple enough.  Some experienced C++ eyeballs
> ought to be able to spot the bug.

Mark,

I've seen several of these tickets, but I can't reproduce the crashing
on my system (either because I'm running Master instead of 0.24, or
more likely because of some difference on my system).  If you can
reproduce the crash reliably, could you try running valgrind on it?
Something like:
    valgrind --leak-check=yes mythfrontend ...

If there is some kind of memory corruption going on, valgrind might
find something interesting before the crash.

Thanks,

Jim