Bug 11166 (Frank)

Summary:	swfdec crashes firefox if it cannot access the sound device
Product:	swfdec	Reporter:	Francisco V. Saldana <dressedinblue>
Component:	library	Assignee:	swfdec ml <swfdec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	swfdec ml <swfdec>
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PowerPC
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Francisco V. Saldana 2007-06-05 21:52:23 UTC

After installing swfdec and swfdec-mozilla, but before I added my user to the audio group, I started firefox and tried playing a youtube video. The browser would immediately close. I believe this crash is caused because swfdec expected access to the audio device to be granted, and it crashed when it was denied. After adding my user to the audio group, the videos successfully played.

Comment 1 Pavel Roskin 2007-11-01 12:30:56 UTC

I cannot reproduce it with the current code.  It may depend in whether libmad is used.  It's no longer used by default.  Make sure to install gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-ugly for sound formats with patent and other problems.

Comment 2 Benjamin Otte 2007-11-01 15:12:28 UTC

This should be fixed since 0.5.3, indeed.

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