Rockbox

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Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by rasher - 2006-02-09
Last edited by christi-s - 2006-03-19

FS#3003 - Crash with old ogg/vorbis files

(Running on iriver h120)

I have a file encoded with a pre-1.0 version
(Xiphophorus libVorbis I 20000508), that freezes
Rockbox when I attempt to play it. The harddrive light
stays on, and the player is unresponsive.

FWIW, the iriver firmware won’t play it either, but
skips it. Winamp does play it though, so it’s not a
broken file as such, just old.

I’m not adding this to #1411650 since the symptoms are
different (lock-up vs. not playing). Plus, this problem
is probably related to the file being old, and #1411650
is not.

I’ll email the file if anyone wants to test.

Closed by  learman
2006-04-05 14:04
Reason for closing:  Fixed
learman commented on 2006-04-05 09:52

Ah, the old “out of memory” problem. :) Certain Vorbis files need a bit of memory to decode, and in this case, Rockbox soon runs out of memory. Introducing a real malloc & friends might help, but the malloc buffer size would need to be increased, to cope with overhead and memory fragmentation (peak memory usage for this file is within the current size though). Making Tremor exit gracefully would be nice, but I’m not sure how much work that would require.

Anyway, I’ll see if I can improve things a bit…

learman commented on 2006-04-05 14:03

Turned out it was quite easy to fix playback of this particular file at least.

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