[mythtv-commits] Ticket #12709: Segmentation fault playing a recording with file missing

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#12709: Segmentation fault playing a recording with file missing
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 Reporter:  Peter Bennett <pgbennett@…>  |          Owner:  jyavenard
     Type:  Bug Report - Crash           |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor                        |      Milestone:  0.28
Component:  MythTV - Video Playback      |        Version:  Master Head
 Severity:  medium                       |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                               |  Ticket locked:  0
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Changes (by knight):

 * milestone:  unknown => 0.28


Old description:

> Reported by Nocolas Riendeau
> This is caused by my fix for ticket #12691
> I will submit a patch shortly.
> Note that ticket #12693 is also a fix for the same area of code, so the
> patch I submit will be dependent on #12693.

New description:

 Reported by Nicolas Riendeau, tracked down by Roger Siddons.
 This is caused by my fix for ticket #12691
 I will submit a patch shortly.
 Note that ticket #12693 is also a fix for the same area of code, so the
 patch I submit will be dependent on #12693.

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Comment:

 Replying to [comment:2 rsiddons]:
 > The video player (mythfrontend::main::internal_play_media()) plays video
 from any source. For instance Gallery uses it for camera videos and
 !MythBrowser and !SetupWizard use it for downloaded videos. So it has to
 fail in a generic/independent way.
 >
 > "Try it and handle failure" is a more robust strategy than "Check first,
 do it and handle unexpected failure" (file disappears between check and
 play ?). It also avoids having to retrieve a remote file twice.
 >
 > Recordings are a special case. The UI does extra checks on recording
 files so that they can be marked as missing in the UI. Therefore, it won't
 even try to play a recording that it already knows is absent.

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Ticket URL: <https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12709#comment:6>
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