[vlc-devel] "fatal error locking mutex" trying to run libvlc example

Stjepan Rajko stjepan.rajko at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 18:38:12 CET 2008


Hi,

Sorry if I'm being impatient, but I'm brand new to VLC and really
don't know how to move forward with the problem I described below.  Is
this the wrong list to ask this question?  I also tried the IRC
channel but received no response there either.

Thanks in advance.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Stjepan Rajko <stjepan.rajko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to use libvlc in an application that captures, records
> and annotates video.  To get started, I am trying to build the example
> libVLC tutorial code (http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_Tutorial with
> "--module-path" changed to "--plugin-path") on OS X 10.5.  It compiles
> fine but I get the following error when running:
>
> [00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.5
> Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
> [00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure
> [00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
> LibVLC fatal error locking mutex in thread 2685341600 at misc/objects.c:194: 22
>  Error message: Invalid argument
>
> I get the locking mutex error both when I link/include with libvlc
> that I built myself (from the latest vlc source stable download) as
> well as link/include with what is present in the downloadable VLC.app.
>  The error occurs when executing the line:
>
> inst = libvlc_new (sizeof(vlc_args) / sizeof(vlc_args[0]), vlc_args, &ex);
>
> I am compiling with GCC 4.0 and using the 10.4 SDK if that helps any.
>
> Any help with this problem would be very much appreciated.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Stjepan



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