[Ffmpeg-devel] FFMPEG crashes on WinXP SP2

[Adam Pierce]

I found an additional clue. It works OK when statically linked, it is 
the --enable-shared which does it. Unfortunately, I want the DLLs so I 
can link it with an MSVC++ GUI front-end.

Adam Pierce wrote:

> Hi all, this is my first post.
>
> I am trying to use FFMPEG to decode some ASF files under Windows and 
> I'm having trouble. It crashes every time on Windows XP SP2 but works 
> fine on WinXP SP1.
>
> Most other video formats seem to work fine, just not ASF.
>
> I have tried versions 0.4.8, 0.4.9-pre1 and the latest CVS, they all 
> exhibit the same problem.
>
> I compiled FFMPEG with MinGW using --enable-mingw32 --enable-shared 
> --disable-static --enable-memalign-hack
>
> Here is an example of how to crash it (using version 0.4.8):
>
> C:\Program Files\FFmpeg> ffmpeg -i test1.asf test1.mpeg
> input #0, asf, from 'test1.asf':
>  Duration: 00:01:14.9, bitrate: 599 kb/s
>  Stream #0.0: Audio: wmav2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
>  Stream #0.1: Video: wmv2, 352x240, 15000.00 fps
> Output #0, mpeg, to 'test1.mpeg':
>  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg1video, 352x240, 15000.00 fps, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
>  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 64 kb/s
> Stream mapping:
>  Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
>  Stream #0.0 -> #0.1
>
> That will crash, however if I use the -an option to disable audio 
> processing, it does not crash.
>
> I've had a go at trying to debug it but the code is difficult for me 
> to understand.
>
> Has anyone else had such problems ?
>
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