Bug Report

[Stéphane Borel]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:30:07AM +0200, Vincent TOUGAIT wrote:
> 
> 	As soon as we came back from the SDL, IC and I downloaded te last
> CVS snapshot (vlc-snapshot-20010407-12.tar.bz2). Configure : no problem,
> make : not even a warning. Make install : all is right...
> 	Then we run gvlc and then, first problem : when we try to read a
> DVD, we get the following message :
> 
> VideoLAN Client - version snapshot-20010407-12 Urumov - (C)1996-2001
> VideoLAN
> 
> intf: interface initialized
> vout: video display initialized (720x576, 24/32 bpp)
> input: opening dvd:/dev/dvd
> css error: could not get copyright bit
> Segmentation fault

It looks like an ioctl issue. Do you have write access on the DVD
_device_ ? It is necessary.
 
> 	I'm lucky, because mine segfault, and then come back to the prompt.
> IC's just hang after the css error and he has to play with killall... (For
> information, he is in 16/16 bpp).

This issue is fixed in latest cvs. The input was not told to exit after
an error in init :)

> 	Next problem : as we could not play DVD =(, we went on to play
> MPEGs. The player works quite well itself, but 1) we can not access the
> Stop button while playing a video... 2) we can not open another video while
> playing one. So, to play another one, we have to quit vlc and then re-start
> it.

You should be able to open another video with the gtk/gnome interface at
least, and then navigate through the playlist with prev/next. But I must
admit it often segfaults.

-- 
Stef