Getting seg-fault while playing any stream through vlc with HW accelerated decoder in Jetson platform

[kunal das]

Getting seg-fault while playing any stream through vlc with HW accelerated decoder in Jetson platform.

Repro steps:
1. Install VLC - sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install vlc
2. Play any video file
3. VLC crashes

I have compiled vlc(3.0.8 and 3.0.12 version) from source: git://git.videolan.org/vlc/vlc-3.0.git, and able to play the stream properly, it is failing only when we are installing via "apt-get install".

VLC is failing with HW accelerated decoder in jetson due to size mismatch of one structure (OMX_VERSIONTYPE), we have already checked upstream Khronos headers and found they match what we are using, still we are getting different size for this particular structure.

I checked VLC source code(https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/tree/modules/codec/omxil/OMX_Types.h?h=applied/3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1) and found that type of OMX_U32 is "unsigned long" whereas in khronos OMX headers it is "uint32_t" and type of OMX_U8 in vlc source code is "unsigned char" whereas in khronos OMX headers it is "uint8_t"

[kunal das (kudas)]

Hi, I can see this bug is still Unassigned , Can you please look into this issue?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Fixed upstream in 3.0.12.1-40-gf128680a57

[kunal das (kudas)]

Hey Rémi, thanks for the fix, it will solve our issue, may I know when it will be released? is it already upstreamed or is it going to be in some time?

[RAHUL MARUTI BHAGWAT (rbhagwat)]

Can we get this fix for ubuntu 18.04 and ubuntu 20.04 versions of vlc?