Several applications crashes when reading a mpeg4 video

[Hadrien]

I am reporting this bug on the Ubuntu section as it affects several programs.

Yesterday (2014-05-27) I started experiencing crashes with HD channels on my DVB-T tuner and the latest version of Kaffeine that uses VLC facilites for decoding. My Ubuntu version is a 14.04 LTS x64 and is up to date.

I had a small video recorded one week ago when the HD video decoding was still working. Now if I play it with Kaffeine -> crash. If I try to read it in VLC -> crash, if I try to check properties in Nautilus -> crash, try to play in Totem -> crash

So it looks like a low level component was updated and is now causing a crash on all software relying on it.

Kaffeine version: 1.3-git
VLC version: 2.1.5 Rincewind
Nautilus version: 3.10.1
Totem : 3.10.1

With Kaffeine and VLC I get a stack trace that looks like that:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fdeb2847700 (LWP 29065)]
0x00007fdef766849a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.7
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fdef766849a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.7
#1 0x00007fdef766a519 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.7
#2 0x00007fdef7ee9182 in start_thread (arg=0x7fdeb2847700)
    at pthread_create.c:312
#3 0x00007fdef7a1230d in clone ()
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:111

And on Nautilus I get a different one:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f499318e700 (LWP 8826)]
0x00007f49ac14bf12 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlibav.so
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007f49ac14bf12 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlibav.so
#1 0x00007f49ac14c671 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlibav.so
#2 0x00007f49cce8fc73 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstaudio-1.0.so.0
#3 0x00007f49cce9004b in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstaudio-1.0.so.0
#4 0x00007f49cce91036 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstaudio-1.0.so.0
#5 0x00007f49cd791d08 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
#6 0x00007f49c3bc82a9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstbase-1.0.so.0
#7 0x00007f49cd791d08 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
#8 0x00007f49c3baab09 in gst_base_parse_push_frame () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstbase-1.0.so.0
#9 0x00007f49c3bae1c3 in gst_base_parse_finish_frame () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstbase-1.0.so.0
#10 0x00007f49ac373c33 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstaudioparsers.so
#11 0x00007f49c3ba81e4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstbase-1.0.so.0
#12 0x00007f49c3bab74a in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstbase-1.0.so.0
#13 0x00007f49cd791d08 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
#14 0x00007f49ae35da23 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstcoreelements.so
#15 0x00007f49cd7bf549 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
#16 0x00007f49df50989c in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00007f49df508f15 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00007f49ded64182 in start_thread (arg=0x7f499318e700) at pthread_create.c:312
#19 0x00007f49dea9130d in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:111

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[Hadrien (psydk)]

I built VLC from GIT and I got a version labeled "2.2.0-git Weatherwax". This version is able to play the attached video without problem, and Kaffeine does not crash anymore. The problem is probably specific to version 2.1.5.

However Nautilus continues crashing.

[Lucy Llewellyn (lucyllewy)]

drive-by: the comments above suggest kaffeine is not an issue any longer, so I'm specifying a vlc package hint.

[JB VideoLAN (jb-videolan)]

VLC 2.2.0 is in Utopic.

[Hadrien (psydk)]

Nautilus does not crah anymore when looking at the file properties on Ubuntu 14.10.

[Hadrien (psydk)]

Cannot reproduce on Ubuntu 15.04

[Hadrien (psydk)]

Cannot reproduce on Ubuntu 15.10, I thing we can close this bug.