FAAC hangs during processing arbitrarily long files (seems fixed in 1.25)
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faac (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: faac
I have been processing long .wav and raw PCM files lately (on the order of an hour or two). On many of these files, faac will end up sitting and spinning, after processing an arbitrary portion of the file.
I have done the following to troubleshoot:
1) FAAC.EXE 1.24.1 under Windows XP - no problem.
2) faac 1.25 (compiled from source) on feisty - no problem with MPEG-2 AAC, unable to get MPEG-4 support compiled due to the existing known issues and my own lack of intelligence ;)
3) Ubuntu supplied faac 1.24 on edgy -faac hangs (i.e. file stops growing, elapsed time stops counting.)
4) Ubuntu supplied faac 1.24 on feisty - faac hangs (i.e. file stops growing, elapsed time stops counting.)
Items of note:
* Tests 1, 3 and 4 were each on their own machines.
* A given file will always hang on the same frame.
* Files with more channels hang at a lower frame count.
* When faac hangs, a ^C will not kill it. using ^Z will get back to the shell, however, where it can be killed with a -9.
* Hangs occur with both MPEG2 AAC and MPEG4 AAC.
I can confirm this, exactly the same problem.