[vlc-devel] libvlc_media_player_stop

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On Oct 25, 2008, at 1:43 AM, David Hoyt wrote:

> I've got an interesting error that I've tried everything I know how  
> to resolve it. Ultimately, it comes down to the fact that I'm just  
> not that familiar w/ the VLC internals.
>
> I'm trying to use vlc in java through the java bindings (JVLC). The  
> app freezes on me, however, in libvlc_media_player_stop and  
> sometimes in libvlc_media_player_release on Windows XP SP2.
>
> I can't release any example code without going through an exhaustive  
> review and release process. So I'm stuck explaining the problem.
>
> Here are some others with the same problem:
> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51509
> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=47385&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=60
>
> I've got 12+ videos going on a single dialog using SWT. I start them  
> out all playing the same video. They then reach the end of the 3- 
> second long clip and all stop. I then tell one panel to play a  
> video. It plays just fine. Then I tell it to switch and play another  
> video while it's still playing (my code asks it to stop first and  
> then play) and it freezes. Java tells me it's stuck on the call to  
> libvlc_media_player_stop(). This freezes up my app.
>
> I've tried running all the commands on the GUI thread and then also  
> on separate threads and no luck. My guess is that it's stuck on line  
> 689 of https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/src/control/media_player.c


> I've also run into another error if you try and call  
> libvlc_media_player_stop() from the endReached event handler. It  
> freezes there as well. That's not a tough one to get around, but it  
> shouldn't lock up on you.

Could you provide a backtrace, or a sample code that shows the issue?

Pierre.