Opening certain .mp4 files causes VLC to crash instead of showing a file error

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assigned to @AussieTom

A Minor problem Opening certain .mp4 files causes VLC to panic instead of showing a file error This seems to happen with small files copied off my mobile phone - less than 1kbyte size and is repeatable. Using Version VLC 3.0.16 Vetinari - latest version as at 12 May 2022

Symptoms

• all 12 cpu cores go to 100% utilization
• top left "VLC media player" title and the filename title rapidly flicker
• task Manager eventually says VLC not responding and i have to manually end task
• %appdata%\vlc\crashdump is empty
• VLC works fine with other files
• other apps just stop and spit out a file error (Premier Elements, media player "cannot play the file", or "incorrect format", etc) btw I'm technical but not a coder

Rig Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Version 10.0.19044.1706 Build 19044 20181005_20155720181005_201557Mobo Gigabyte B360M-D3H x64-based PC Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel ~3192 Mhz (i7) Total Physical Memory: 32,702 MB

changed title from Opening certain .mp4 files causes VLC to panic instead of showing a file error to Opening certain .mp4 files causes VLC to crash instead of showing a file error

marked this issue as a duplicate of #26733 (closed)

closed

marked this issue as related to #26733 (closed)

Should be fixed with 3.0.17.4 https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.fr.html

unassigned @AussieTom

changed milestone to %3.0.18

Ah no, it will be fixed in the next 3.0.18, you can try a nightly to confirm it is fixed: https://nightlies.videolan.org/