[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] MMDevice: only WASAPI lacks S/PDIF support so far (refs #6827)

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 20 Feb, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> Le jeudi 20 février 2014, 18:14:07 Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> > On 20 Feb, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> > > Le jeudi 20 février 2014, 17:17:39 Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> > > > It first warns on the return of ISimpleAudioVolume_SetMasterVolume,
> > > > "cannot set master volume (error 0x80070057)" and then plainly crash
> > > > with a non-exploitable backtrace, after a couple of seconds.
> > > > On Windows 8.1 64bits, fully patched.
> > > > This is with the latest NB.
> > > 
> > > VLC does not *even* load on Windows to begin with due to missing DLLs, so
> > > I do not see how it could crash.
> > 
> > *cough*
> > http://imgur.com/a/chbtL
> > 
> > This is the latest nightly build and it runs fine...
> 
> I believe I am not the only person who's getting unloadable Win32 executables 
> out of the current build tree.

See my mail above.

> I hope that the Nightly Builds are *not* made with custom hacked toolchains or 
> build rules. That would probably violate the GPL and otherwise, well it really 
> sucks if I may say.

Complain to your packager, and ask him to stop using non-default flags.

With my kindest regards,

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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